[Seroanthropological studies of albino and melanoderm Bamiléké populations (Cameroon). ABO and Rhesus erythrocyte groups, hemoglobin S and taste sensitivity to phenylthiocarbamide]

Human oculocutaneous albinism is a recessive autosomic hereditary disease with a prevalence of 1/8,500 in bamileke tribe (Cameroon). ABO and Rhesus red blood cell group repartition, presence of hemoglobin S, taste sensitivity for phenylthiocarbamid in a group of 100 albino bamileke subjects were compared with these of 100 black bamileke subjects. There is no significant difference for these genetic markers mentionned above between albino and black bamileke subjects.