The World Distribution of Transferrin Variants and some Unsolved Problems
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- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae
- Vol. 17 (4), 613-640
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1120962300012488
Abstract
SummaryNineteen variants of the iron-binding protein, transferrin, have been described in human serum. The world literature on the distribution of these variants in human populations is surveyed in comprehensive tables and attention is drawn to some of the outstanding deficiencies in our present knowledge of this distribution. It is pointed out that transferrin variants are important markers in anthropological studies.Keywords
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