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Serum Albumin Polymorphism in North American Indians

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ALBUMIN variants, migrating anodally to the usual type in starch gel, cellulose acetate and paper electrophoretic systems, have been reported in Algonkian-speaking and neighbouring North American Indian populations1 and in several Indian and non-Indian pedigrees2–5. Variation in the electrophoretic mobility of the Indian and one non-Indian, fast migrating variant has been established1. An additional albumin variant with a slow electrophoretic mobility occurs, with relatively high frequency, in Mexican Indian populations1, and has been observed in a Pima population of the south-western United States (our unpublished work).

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  1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Minneapolis War Memorial Blood Bank,

    H. F. POLESKY & D. A. ROKALA

  2. Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota,

    H. F. POLESKY & D. A. ROKALA

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POLESKY, H., ROKALA, D. Serum Albumin Polymorphism in North American Indians. Nature 216, 184–185 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216184a0

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