A Survey of Inherited Blood Protein Variations in Amami Oshima Island, Southernmost Part of Japan

Abstract

For the purpose of detecting the geographical variations within Japan, the distribution of electrophoretic variants in two serum and ten red cell enzyme systems were determined among more than 300 inhabitants in Amami OshimaIsland. Most notable trends for this population were considered to have the relatively low frequencies of PGM₁¹, Gpt^l and ADA² from the obtained results. The overall data are presented with some comments.