Yoruba

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The Yoruba are a tribe in Africa which has been rumored to have a high percentage of rh negatives.
The only official study available was conducted on 42 Yoruba individuals and 7 out of them were rh negative making it a percentage of 16.6%.

yoruba rhesus negative africa

Note also how the tribes surrounding them are relatively high in rh negatives compared to the continental average of around 3% in Africa indicating that the original percentage of Yorubas could have been significantly being lowered by mixing with low-rh-negative neighbor tribes increasing their percentage to almost theirs.

Famous people with Yoruba ancestry include singers Sade and Seal.
sade adu yoruba rhesus negative
More information here: Prevalence of D(u) phenotype amongst rhesus negative females in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

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2 Comments

  1. Kali May 28, 2015

    Interesting I am O- as is my mother and grandmother, I am so very interested in my blood ytpe as it being the world is more for rh positive and there well being, where as my blood type is just a mutation and alien when actually no one can prove so to me it’s the original bloodline since it can’t be described or even discovered as far as worldly findings, I and other rh negative people know that we are not of this generation being pure, but sadly we have been taught the way to live as as the D gene with hopes of not knowing and understanding the feelings that we fell as well as not belonging in this or to this world because we are different!

  2. Joann Gardner July 20, 2016

    This is very encouraging. Most of the information I’ve found about this blood type, leads me to Europe, royal-bloodlines, and aliens (to name a few). I have always wondered how this line-creeped into my family (given that I am a black-woman, from Alabama). I had my suspicions that it may have come from my grandfathers side of the family (not bragging about this at all). I actually cried buckets, when I came to find-out what ran through my veins. Finding that there is an African connection brings new hope, and a renewed interest in exploring the trail. Thank-you.

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