A rapid electrophoretic procedure is described for detecting the human red cell glyoxalase I variants (GLO 1, GLO 2-1, and GLO 2) on cellulose acetate gel (cellogel) on which the sites of enzymed activity are visualized as purple bands against white background. The frequency of GLO1 gene in a Dutch
Distribution of glyoxalase I (GLO) variants in Western Europe and the Indian subcontinent
โ Scribed by Bhaskara R. Busi; Linda J. Wells; W. S. Volkers; Alida Cornelia Ebeli-Struijk; P. Meera Khan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 444 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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โฆ Synopsis
English, Italian (including Sardinian), and Spanish populations from Europe and Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Punjabi, and other populations from the Indian subcontinent currently living either in Birmingham or in India were screened for electrophoretically detectable genetic variants of red cell glyoxalase I (GLO), and their frequencies were reported. All the western European populations investigated, including those reported, exhibited an incidence of close to 44% for the GLO1 gene. The frequency distribution of the GLO1 gene in various populations from the Indian subcontinent, in contrast, was found to range between 0.15 and 0.33. These observations suggest that the European populations in general are genetically more homogeneous than are the populations of the Indian subcontinent.
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