Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Allele PiS Fails to Show Segregation Distortion
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Human Heredity
- Vol. 32 (4), 246-252
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000153301
Abstract
Recent reports suggest that despite negative selection pressure, the deficient alpha-1-antitrypsin allele, PiZ, is maintained in a state of balanced polymorphism through the action of segregation distortion in heterozygous males. Published family data suggest that the same mechanism may be operating on behalf of the partially deficient allele PiS. Back-cross and intercross data, involving more than 250 informative meioses for PiS are reported here. Segregation analysis fails to confirm the hypothesis that the PiS allele is preferentially transmitted.Keywords
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