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Mitochondrial malic enzyme (MEM) was examined by starch gel electrophoresis in 126 liver samples and 43 leukocytes from adult subjects in Japanese. The estimated gene frequencies of MEM were 0.56 for MEM 1 and 0.44 for MEM 2 respectively, in this population. There were differences in the gene frequencies between the Japanese population and the population of the other races. These findings show that the gene frequency of MEM 1=0.56 of Japanese is lower than that of North Americans (0.67), American Negroes (0.83), European Caucasians (0.67) and Southwestern Germans (0.67) reported until now.
This investigation coincided with the gene frequencies of the Indian population. From the results, it was found that the mitochondrial malic enzyme of leukocytes could be applicable in the field of forensic medicine.
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Abe, K., Akiyama, K. Mitochondrial malic enzyme polymorphism in Japanese population. Jap J Human Genet 28, 11–15 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01897043
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