Blood Group, Red Cell Enzyme and Serum Protein Types in the Buka Islanders, Papua New Guinea

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Abstract
Genetic marker studies on a sample of 80 speakers of the Petats and Tinputs families of languages, all pupils at a single high school, indicate a homogeneity among them which can be extrapolated to their areas of origin, Buka and its offshore islands and the northern part of Bougainville Island in the North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea. Several marker systems, most notably 1st-locus phosphoglucomutase and liver acetyltransferase, reinforce the morphological evidence that these peoples are quite distinct from most other Papua New Guinea populations, with whom, however, there was some gene exchange, probably through East New Britain. Their principal affinities are with the peoples of the Solomon Islands to the south.

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