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The plasmas of two groups of subjects were examined for blood coagulation Factor XIII-A (FXIII-A, F13A) by electrophoresis in agarose using a Tris-EDTA-borate buffer to separate the common variants, F13A*1, F13A*2, and F13A*3. Dimeric subunits were visualized in UV light as monodansyl cadaverine bound to casein at the position of the transglutaminase activity representing F13A. One test group consisted of 307 members of three large Caucasian families. The other consisted of 148 consecutive patients whose plasmas had been sent to the clinical laboratory for determination of prothrombin time. Segregation analysis and father-to-son transmission confirmed that F13A is inherited as an autosomal co-dominant trait. The allelic frequencies in the random sample were F13A*1=0.82 and F13A*2=0.18. This sample included both blacks and whites, and the gene frequencies were not significantly different in the two races. The gene frequencies among the unrelated spouses of the three white families were A*1=0.75, A*2=0.24, A*3=0.01. Genetic equilibrium was present in both groups.
The degree of polymorphism, the availability of blood, the ease of assessment, the absence of selective pressure, and the uniformity of gene frequencies in two major American ethnic groups make F13A a very useful marker for linkage studies and paternity testing. F13A has been provisionally assigned to chromosome 6. Linkage analysis of our family data did not provide evidence of linkage to two chromosome 6 markers, properdin factor B (BF) and glyoxalase 1 (GLO). The highest lod score (Z) was between F13A and the Kidd (Jk) blood group (Z=0.68 at Θ-0.24).
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Graham, J.B., Edgell, C.J.S., Fleming, H. et al. Coagulation factor XIII: A useful polymorphic genetic marker. Hum Genet 67, 132–135 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272987
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