Immumoglobulin allotypes in Ecuadorian Cayapa Indians |
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Authors: | Michael A. Kron Laura Gately Janardan P. Pandey Miguel H. Jurado Jose Rumbea Guzman |
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Affiliation: | (1) Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Michigan State University, 48824 East Lansing, MI, USA;(2) Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA;(3) National Center for Tropical Medicine, University of Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador;(4) Department of Pathology, Michigan State University, B307 Clinical Center, 48824 East Lansing, MI, USA |
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Abstract: | Indigenous Indian groups comprise approximately 20% of Ecuador's population, the third largest percentage in all of Central or South America, yet immunogenetic data on these groups are lacking in the literature. In the course of population migration studies, sera collected from 65 Ecuadorians living in the northern province of Esmeraldas were typed for six GM and two KM markers. The study population consisted of 47 Cayapa Indians and 18 blacks of African origin, descendants of slaves imported into the area during the seventeenth century. The Cayapa demonstrated three GM phenotypes, two of which are common to other South American Indian tribes. The frequency of KM1 positive Cayapa Indians (63%) is similar to other South American Indian tribes, but is significantly greater than the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador (2%), the only other Ecuadorian Indian group for whom limited immunoglobulin allotype data are available (2=35.8, P<0.0001). |
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