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Genotypes and allele frequencies of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion polymorphism among Omanis
Ali T Al-Hinai1, Mohammed O Hassan, Mehmet Simsek
1Departments of Medicine.
Objective:
To describe the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) genotype frequencies among Omani Arabs.
Method:
A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, based on separation of different size DNA fragments, was developed to test the presence or absence (polymorphism) of a small DNA deletion in the ACE gene. The subjects were 124 Omani Arab students of Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat.
Results:
The frequency of the I allele was 0.29, while that of the D allele was 0.71. The gene frequency distribution did not deviate from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
Conclusions:
The frequency of D allele among Omanis is similar to that among other Arabs and Africans, but differs significantly from that among the Japanese and Chinese.
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