Absence of the E2 allele of apolipoprotein in Amerindians

Determination of the ApoE allele distribution in five South American Amerindian tribes revealed absence of the ApoE2 allele, accompanied by high ApoE3 and low ApoE4 allele frequencies for most tribes, a distribution only previously reported for the Inuit Eskimo from Greenland.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marin,Guilherme B., Tavella,Marli H., Guerreiro,João F., Santos,Sidney E.B., Zago,Marco A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 1997
Subjects:
Greenland
eskimo*
inuit
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-84551997000400029
Description
Summary:Determination of the ApoE allele distribution in five South American Amerindian tribes revealed absence of the ApoE2 allele, accompanied by high ApoE3 and low ApoE4 allele frequencies for most tribes, a distribution only previously reported for the Inuit Eskimo from Greenland.

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