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As our knowledge of human albumin variants increases, their description as electrophoretically “slow”, “faster” and so on is becoming inadequate for classification. The largest comparative series1 found five different migration rates in sera from nineteen families. Electrophoretic mobility is not the only criterion, and an earlier classification2 used eight, variations of mobility in different electro-phoretic media and dye-binding properties among them. Such observations will not establish the identity of two albumins but may prove their non-identity.
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TÁRNOKY, A., DOWDING, B. & LAKIN, A. Eight Types of Bisalbuminaemia. Nature 225, 742–743 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225742a0
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