Genetic variants of serum albumin in Americans and Japanese.

• Main Authors: Madison, J, Arai, K, Sakamoto, Y, Feld, R D, Kyle, R A, Watkins, S, Davis, E, Matsuda, Y, Amaki, I, Putnam, F W
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Research Article; Christchurch; naskapi
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC52819; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1946412

A collaborative search for albumin genetic variants (alloalbumins) was undertaken by cellulose acetate and agarose electrophoresis at pH 8.6 of the sera of patients at two major medical centers in the United States and of nearly 20,000 blood donors in Japan. Seventeen instances of alloalbuminemia we...