HLA-DRB1 Allele Frequencies in a Chaouya Population from Settat, Morocco.

This population from the Settat area of Morocco, Latitude 33N Longitude 7.3W consisted of 98 Caucasian individuals. The Chaouya group are Arabic-speaking people; this population derives from the Berber Zenata and Houwara populations that became totally Arabic-speaking. The individuals were drawn from a rural environment where the parents had also lived and alleles were determined by sequenced based typing.