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A statistically significant decrease of prealbumin and statistically significant increases of alpha2-macroglobulin and IgA were found in blood plasma of patients with Down's syndrome using quantitative crossed immunoelectrophoresis.
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We are indebted to Prof. T.C. Bøg-Hansen, University of Copenhagen, for the helpful discussion of our results.
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Kędziora, J., Soszyński, M., Bartosz, G. et al. Down's syndrome: changes in protein fractions of blood plasma. Experientia 36, 926–927 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01953796
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