GYPB and malaria: Glycophorins (GYPB and GYPA), which determine MN and Ss blood groups in humans (Blumenfeld and Huang 1995) and define resistance to parasites, including malaria (Band et al. 2015), demonstrated high FST between the Yakut cattle and the pure taurine cattle with the GYPB being on top of the FST gene list (supplementary information 6, Supplementary Material online) and the positive selection list in Yakut cattle from the dN/dS analysis (MAF ≤ 0.1; supplementary information 9a, Supplementary Material online).