Milk casein polymorphism in the Kikuyu population.
Urea-starch-gel electrophoresis of casein samples from women of the Kikuyu tribe (central Africa) shows that this Negroid population had the same alpha- and beta-casein polymorphic pattern as Caucasoids, though their gene frequencies for the beta-locus were inverted. A new beta-casein variant (named beta-E) was identified.
D044383:Black People; D002364:Caseins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000032:analysis*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011487:Protein Conformation
D002364:Caseins