Abstract
Blood samples from the Taiwanese living in Taichung area in Taiwan have been tested for 4 blood group, 4 serum protein, and enzyme group systems. All the serum protein and enzyme group systems reported on here, except ABO, MN, P and Rh blood groups, have not been studied previously in Taiwanese. There were no any unusual phenotypes detected in all of these systems investi-gated. The overall results were discussed in comparison to those for the Japa-nese and Takasagos. In the blood group systems, the frequencies were similar to those reported in oher studies on the Taiwan Chinese and Southern Chinese. With the Hp1, Km1, and PHsA gene frequencies, there were significant differences between the Taiwanese and Takasagos, though no significant differeces between the Taiwanese and Japanese. Phenotypically, Gm pattern of the Taiwanese characterized by having a remarkably high frequency of Gm1, 5 is rather similar to that of the Takasagos, whereas it differs markedly from that of the Japanese.
