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Several transferrin variants detected in surveys of serum samples from Koreans and Japanese have been compared critically with standards and with each other using thin layer agarose gel electrophoresis and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
All slow-moving variants were found to have identical mobility with a reference sample of CDChi. Four different fast-moving variants were detected, BKorea 1, BKorea 2, BJap. 1 and BJap. 2. Their relative mobilities at pH 8.9 and 6.5 have been listed and compared with variants described by other investigators.
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Kirk, R.L., Matsumoto, H. & Katayama, K. Transferrin variants in Korea and Japan. Jap J Human Genet 23, 1–7 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01871376
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