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A total of 1241 blood samples from 15 Dhangar groups — a semi-nomadic population, were studied by starch gel electrophoresis for haptoglobin and acid phosphatase types.
The gene frequencies for Hp1 in 12 of the 15 groups studied are between 0.0715 - U. 1913 and they are homogeneous-among themselves, but significantly differ from the remaining three. The latter three groups show higher Hp1 gene frequencies, in the range of 0.2727 - 0.3462, and suggest that they are also quite homogeneous.
A, AB and B phenotypes of acid phosphatase were seen among all the groups. Frequencies of the PASA gene ranges from 0. 1016 to 0.2143 in the ten groups tested tor this enzyme.
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Mukherjee, B., Das, S.K., Malhotra, K.C. et al. Haptoglobin and acid phosphatase gene distributions in the Dhangars of Maharashtra, India. J Genet 63, 39–45 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984224
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