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A LINKAGE investigation has been carried out in American Negroes to confirm that deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is sex linked rather than sex limited1, and, if sex linked, to determine the recombination fraction (χ) between the loci for deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and colour-blindness; further, through the use of linkage, to see if the difference between the expression of deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in Negroes and Caucasians2 is explicable on the basis of different genetic loci in the different ethnic groups.
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PORTER, I., SCHULZE, J. & McKUSICK, V. Linkage between Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Colour-Blindness. Nature 193, 506 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193506a0
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