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INHERITED variation of the serum protein transferrin was first detected in man by Smithies in 1957, using starch-gel electrophoresis1. At present 16 different human transferrin variants have been described. Fourteen of these are summarized by Parker and Bearn2. The fifteenth, BLae, was observed in a single pedigree in New Guinea3, and the sixteenth, DWigan, nas been reported recently in an English family4.
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COOPER, D., LANDER, H. & KIRK, R. DAdelaide—a New Transferrin Variant in Man. Nature 204, 102 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204102a0
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