title: Plasminogen (PLG) polymorphism in northern Japanese: confirmation of PLG*M6 allele.
abstract: Plasminogen (PLG) phenotyping has been performed on 450 unrelated individuals from northern Japan, using wide-scale ultrathin layer polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing combined with immunoblotting. One common phenotype and six rare ones were observed. The rare phenotypes included the recently detected allele PLG*M6 in a new combination with PLG*M5 allele. The estimated allele frequencies for PLG*A, PLG*A3, PLG*M2, PLG*M5, PLG*M6, PLG*B, and PLG*B2 were 0.961, 0.009, 0.001, 0.016, 0.001, 0.003, and 0.009, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and pathology, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Sebetan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Funayama
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010641:Phenotype; D010958:Plasminogen / Q000235:genetics*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
chemical_list: D010958:Plasminogen