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SINCE the discovery of genetically controlled slow and fast transferrin variants in human beings1,2, data on the frequencies of the different transferrin phenotypes have been collected from various populations. It was noted that slow variants seemed to occur mainly in Negroes and Australian Aborigines and fast variants in White people.
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BECKMAN, L., HOLMGREN, G. & MÅRTENSSON, E. Transferrin Types in the Swedish Population. Nature 193, 185–186 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193185a0
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