Human heterozygosity: a new estimate.

Edwin H. McConkey, Brian J. Taylor, Denis Phan∥

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1979 · 87 citations · 19 references

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Several hundred polypeptides from four human diploid fibroblast cell lines were compared by high-resolution two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and double-label autoradiography under conditions where allelic products that differ by a single charged amino acid would be distinguished. The average heterozygosity represented by this set of gene products appears to be less than 1% for changes involving charged amino acids.

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