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High match rate
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AIDS resistance
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Blood
Have 20% Europian ancestry
Maybe have high degree of O type blood
Results of Haitian Study
This study was based on Y-chromosomal diversity in Haiti and Jamaica. What this means is that the focus was on the origin of paternal genetic lines in the Haitian and Jamaican populations. In the Americas, Y chromosomes are of European descent among whites and among most mixed race individuals, pointing towards a pattern of initial interracial mating between European man and Native American or African women. Considering the history of the Western Hemisphere, this shouldn’t be surprising.
It goes without saying that probably well over 90% of Haitians have African mtDNA (maternal line), but this was not the focus of this study.
The findings in this study for the Haitian population were as follows:
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77.2% have Sub-Saharan African Y chromosomes. (For comparison, this very same study found that 66.7% of Jamaicans have Sub-Saharan African Y chromosomes).
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20.3% of Haitians have European Y chromosomes (compared to 18.9% of Jamaicans).
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The study also detected Chinese and Indian (from India, not the Americas) Y chromosomes, but exclusively among Jamaicans and not Haitians.
In essence, the majority of paternal lineages in Haiti are of African origin and 1-in-5 Haitians can trace their paternal heritage to Europe (most likely French considering Haiti’s history and I always suspected that in the regions of Haiti that were part of the DR –the Centre Plateau area- and were settled by Canary Islanders, there’s probably some Spanish blood mixed in the population too).