Genetic variation in Cameroon: Thermostability variants of hemoglobin and of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase |
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Authors: | Shelly C. Bernstein James E. Bowman L. Kaptue Noche |
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Affiliation: | (1) Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, the Committee on Genetics, and the Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Division of Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, 60637 Chicago, Illinois;(2) University Center for Health Sciences, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon |
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Abstract: | The technique of heat denaturation was used in addition to electrophoresis for the detection of thermostability variants of hemoglobin and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in an attempt to measure the amount of genetic variability present in villages in the United Republic of Cameroon, Equatorial Africa. A minimum of three to a maximum of 13 thermostability variants were estimated for HbA and HbS, and a minimum of two to a maximum of ten thermostability variants were estimated for GdA, GdB, and GdA —. It is suggested that hemoglobin and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase thermostability variants are genetically determined and that the sites of these variants are at the hemoglobin and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase structural loci. The evidence for the existence of these hidden variants and their importance in the neutralist v. selectionist controversy are discussed.This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant HL 16005. S. C. B. was an International Telephone and Telegraph International Fellow to Cameroon, was supported by Training Grant NIH-GM 07197, and is currently an Insurance Medical Scientist Scholar. This work is in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics by S. C. B. |
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Keywords: | thermostability variation hemoglobin glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase genetic variability Cameroon |
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