Indian tribes, integrating these results with previous investigations. Three alleles (* 18,* 24
and* 30) were common to all tribes, but their frequencies varied between northern and
southern populations. Brazilian tribes have a high frequency of* 30 (average 35%) while in
Argentinian and Chilean Indian populations this allele is present, on average, in 7% of the
chromosomes only. Allele* 24, the most common in other ethnic groups, was observed in …