The group specific component/vitamin D b
โ
Jacques Constans; Prof. Dr. Hartwig Cleve
๐
Article
๐
1988
๐
John Wiley and Sons
๐
English
โ 725 KB
The group-specific component (GC) was discovered in 1959, and in the same year a vitamin D binding protein (DBP) in human plasma was found; however, their identity was established as late as 1975. In the GC/DBP system three common alleles, GC\*1F, GC\*1S, and GC\*2, determine six GC phenotypes: 1F,