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SINCE the discovery by Smithies1 that there are genetically controlled types in human haptoglobins, a few reports2–5 on the distribution of these types in different populations have been published. These are, so far as we are aware, concerned with Caucasian and Negro peoples, with the one exception—that by Sutton et al. 5 on a certain tribe of American Indians. In view of both anthropological and genetical interest of such population studies, some results of our investigations will be reported here.
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MATSUNAGA, E., MURAI, K. Haptoglobin Types in a Japanese Population. Nature 186, 320–321 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186320a0
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