A NOTE ON THE POSSIBLE RELATION OF BLOOD GROUPS TO AGE AND LONGEVITY
Authors: William Washington Graves
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1934)

Article1 December 1934A NOTE ON THE POSSIBLE RELATION OF BLOOD GROUPS TO AGE AND LONGEVITYWILLIAM WASHINGTON GRAVES, M.D., F.A.C.P.WILLIAM WASHINGTON GRAVES, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-8-6-747 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe purpose of this note is to point out hitherto unrecognized possibilities of blood-group investigations in relation to problems of human constitution.In 1901, K. Landsteiner1found that blood-group formation is physiological, independent of pathological processes. This epoch-making discovery, together with the findings of E. von Dungern and L. Hirszfeld,2showing that groups A and B are transmitted as dominants, stimulated much additional research on the problems of serology, heredity, anthropology, paternity and constitution. 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