Affiliations 

  • 1 Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan
J Med Primatol, 1991 May;20(3):126-32.
PMID: 1895332

Abstract

Vitamin D-binding protein (DBP) of crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) was examined by means of three electrophoretic methods. DBP phenotypes were observed to be one or two bands in each method. All of DBP molecular variants could be detected by the simultaneous typing with these three methods. Family analysis suggested that DBP variants followed the mode of autosomal codominant inheritance. A total of 17 phenotypes governed by at least 11 alleles were observed in the populations of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The genetic variability was high in Malaysian and Indonesian populations but low in the Philippine population.

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