Rhone Valley residents show Basque-like frequencies of Rh Negatives

When speaking about the rh negative blood factor and which groups are high for it, there is always one particular group that is being ignored: The people of the Rhone Valley in Switzerland or the Walsers as they are called in German. The Walser are the speakers of the Walser German dialects, a variety of Highest Alemannic. They inhabit the Alps of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as on the fringes of Italy and Austria. The Walser people are named after the Wallis (Valais), the uppermost Rhône valley, where they settled from roughly the 10th century in the late phase of the migration of the Alamanni, crossing from the Bernese Oberland; because of linguistic differences among the Walser dialects, it … Continue reading Rhone Valley residents show Basque-like frequencies of Rh Negatives