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Expression Analysis of Mammalian Linker-histone Subtypes
Published on: March 19, 2012
Phenotypic variation of erythrocyte linker histone H1.c in a pheasant (Phasianus colchicus L.) population
Andrzej Kowalski1, Jan Pa Yga, Ewa Górnicka-Michalska
1Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce Poland.
Abstract:
Our goal was to characterize a phenotypic variation of the pheasant erythrocyte linker histone subtype H1.c. By using two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis three histone H1.c phenotypes were identified. The differently migrating allelic variants H1.c1 and H1.c2 formed either two homozygous phenotypes, c1 and c2, or a single heterozygous phenotype, c1c2. In the pheasant population screened, birds with phenotype c2 were the most common (frequency 0.761) while individuals with phenotype c1 were rare (frequency 0.043).
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