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A study of the erythrocyte carbonic anhydrases of 330 Japanese horses revealed the presence of six major enzymes. All horses possessed a single C-type enzyme. Thoroughbred racing horses had only the B-type carbonic anhydrase designated as D, but some farm horses also had others with electrophoretic mobilities corresponding to the human B, A, and T enzymes. A study of the distribution of these B-type allelic products indicated that their synthesis is controlled by a pair of codominant autosomal alleles as previously reported for the horse and other species.
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This work was supported in part by Grant No. C-1786 from the U.S. Public Health Service and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Deutsch, H.F., Taniguchi, N., Funakoshi, S. et al. Distribution of erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase B-type alleles in Japanese farm horses. Biochem Genet 6, 255–262 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00486119
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