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Science 19 May 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3777, pp. 936 - 937
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3777.936
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Transferrin D1: Identity in Australian Aborigines and American Negroes

An-Chuan Wang 1, H. Eldon Sutton 1, and Ian D. Scott 2

1 Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin 78712
2 Human Genetics Unit, University of Western Australia, Nedlands

Human transferrin D1 obtained from an Australian aborigine was found to have the same substitution of glycine for aspartic acid in peptide 1C previously shown in transferrin D1 from an American Negro. This finding is relevant to formation of distinct Australoid and African populations.

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