An apparently new Variant of human serum albumin, albumin Naskapi, has been found in high frequency in the Naskapi Indians of Quebec and, in lower frequency, in other North American Indians.The family and population
data of the albumin are consistent with its inheritance as a simple autosomal trait Controlled by a gene designated Al Naskapi.
Not exact matches
On the basis
of a cursory inspection
of Takebe's
data presented at the meeting, Grompe says that the liver bud was producing only a small fraction
of the
albumin — a plasma protein that is a key marker
of liver function — that it should.
But Takebe says that since his group generated the
data presented at the Yokohama meeting, procedural improvements have already led to higher levels
of albumin.