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Pi Ecincinnati: A new alpha1-antitrypsin allele in three negro families

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Serum specimens of three unrelated black males had an unusual alpha-1-antitrypsin phenotype, designated Pi Ecincinnati because of its electrophoretic mobility. Family studies indicated that the new phenotype was the expression of an alpha-1-antitrypsin allele, labeled Pi Ecincinnati

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  1. The Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, 45229, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    G. Hug, Gail Chuck & T.M. Slemmer

  2. Department of Immunohaematology, Ulleval Hospital, Oslo 1, Norway

    Magne K. Fagerhol

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Hug, G., Chuck, G., Slemmer, T. et al. Pi Ecincinnati: A new alpha1-antitrypsin allele in three negro families. Hum Genet 54, 361–364 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291583

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