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Human pepsinogen A (PGA) displays highly polymorphic isozymogen patterns after polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and activity staining. The patterns differ with respect to the presence and the relative intensity of the individual fractions. Family studies strongly suggest that these isozymogen patterns are encoded by allelic haplotypes, encompassing different numbers and types of PGA genes. In this paper, we confirm the essential features of this multigene model. We establish the relationship between the haplotypes and the corresponding isozymogen patterns by determination of the PGA polymorphism at both the DNA and the protein level in 117 Dutch individuals, 60 of whom were unrelated. The combination of HindIII and EcoRI restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) has enabled us to define different haplotypes, which are shown to segregate within families. Most genes are characterized by their specific EcoRI fragments. The HindIII RFLP is in strong linkage disequilibrium with PGA genes showing strong expression of the relevant isozymogen. Although a general picture of the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes is emerging, there are exceptions, suggesting that rare haplotypes evolve by unique crossover events.
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Bebelman, J.P., Evers, M.P.J., Zelle, B. et al. Family and population studies on the human pepsinogen A multigene family. Hum Genet 82, 142–146 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00284047
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