Abstract

SUMMARYMore than 4000 blood samples from populations in Japan, Micronesia, Singapore, West Irian, New Guinea and Australia have ben typed for phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) and phosphohexose isomerase (PHI)Normal PGK‐1 patterns were observed in all populations except in Micronesia, parts of West Irian and the Western and Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. In Micronesia both PGK‐2 and PGK2‐1 patterns were observed and the gene frequency of pgk2 was 0.07. In West Irian and the Highlands of New Guinea PGK‐4 and PGK 4‐1 patterns were observed and the highest pgk4 frequency was 0.051 among males in the Western Highlands.Only nine individuals were detected with PHI variant patterns. One PHI 2‐1 was found in a Chinese and two PHI 3‐1 persons were observed among Malays in Singapore, four PHI 5‐1 in the Western Highlands of New Guinesa and one PHI 5‐1 in a Japanese: one PHI 4‐1 was found among Aborigines in Northern Australia.

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