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Species and geographic distribution patterns of the macaque prealbumin polymorphism

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A polymorphism for thyroxine-binding prealbumin (TBPA) is investigated in regards to mode of inheritance as well as distribution within eight species of macaques from known geographic areas. It is found that an electrophoretically slow variant seems to be due to a codominant allele present in six of the species tested.

While the slow form has a frequency of less than 30% in most other populations tested, it is fixed at 100% in the Japanese macaques (M. fuscata). The locus is inHardy-Weinberg equilibrium in all populations however. Since TBPA is intimately related to thyroxine levels in the blood the polymorphism may be an adaptation to cold environments.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, 48202, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    Mark L. Weiss

  2. Depatment of Anatomy, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, 48202, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    Morris Goodman

  3. Department of Biology, Wayne State University, 48202, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    William Prychodko

  4. Japan Monkey Centre, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan

    Toshio Tanaka

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Weiss, M.L., Goodman, M., Prychodko, W. et al. Species and geographic distribution patterns of the macaque prealbumin polymorphism. Primates 12, 75–80 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01730383

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