Vol. 3, Special Issue 3, Part J (2017)

India lies at the tri-junction of three continent and human genetic diversity ranks second after Africa. Indian population is chiefly divided into tribal and non-tribal population. In the present study screening of 744 unrelated Korku individual for the distribution of ABO and Rh loci was carried out. The study shows that blood group A predominates in distribution with the highest phenotypic frequency (66.86%). In future application of DNA based markers would provide more insight into this tribe.