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Alpha-1-antitrypsin (Pi) types in Korean and Chinese populations

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Alpha-1-antitrypsin phenotypes were determined by isoelectric focusing in 270 Koreans and 52 Chinese. The frequencies of the major alleles were the following, numbers for the Chinese sample are in parentheses: PiM1: 0.65 (0.66), PiM2: 0.22 (0.25), PiM3: 0.06 (0.09). Other alleles, including PiZ were present in low frequencies. The Koreans appear to be quite similar to the Chinese in this system.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Chung Choo Lee, F. Kueppers & B. Harpel

  2. On leave from the Department of Zoology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

    Chung Choo Lee

  3. School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    G. Rodgers

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Lee, C.C., Kueppers, F., Harpel, B. et al. Alpha-1-antitrypsin (Pi) types in Korean and Chinese populations. Hum Genet 57, 327–328 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00278956

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