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PLACENTAL ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE TYPES IN PAPUANS AND FIJIANS
Author(s) -
Blake N. M.,
Kirk R. L.,
Fliegner J. R. H.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1969.tb107125.x
Subject(s) - alkaline phosphatase , biology , new guinea , biochemistry , enzyme , sociology , ethnology
Placental alkaline phosphatase types have been determined from an electrophoretic examination of placental extracts for a random series of deliveries to 338 Papuans in Port Moresby and 139 Fijians in Suva. The Pl s1 gene frequency has been computed for the Papuans and Fijians as 0.8798 and 0.7935, Pl i1 as 0.0682 and 0.1486 and Pl f1 as 0.0504 and 0.0580 respectively. Though the distribution of genes differs significantly in the Papuan and Fijian series, the Fiji series itself is lacking in homogeneity. No importance is attached at present, therefore, to the difference between the Papuans and Fijians. Three new alkaline phosphatase patterns are described. One is probably S 1 S 3 , whilst the others have been designated “New Guinea 1” and “Fiji 1”.