Inheritance of some electrophoretic phenotypes of human hair

✍ Scribed by M. Schimkat; M. P. Baur; J. Henke

• Book ID: 104664264
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 353 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6717
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00206752

✦ Synopsis

Four isokeratin patterns were demonstrated by means of one-dimensional SDS electrophoresis of low sulfur proteins in human hair. The phenotypes had the following frequencies: K1 = 69.70%, K1m = 18.18%, K3 = 9.09%, K3m = 3.03%. Pedigree analysis and evaluation of observed and expected frequencies of the phenotypes gave rise to the conclusion that the phenotypes are controlled by genes of two independent autosomal loci K and m. We believe that *K3 and *m are dominant, whereas *K1 and *non-m are recessive.