Abstract
Evidence for a sex-linked determinant of immunoglobulin M levels was sought using correlational and commingling analyses in a sample of 174 randomly selected nuclear families. While mean IgM levels in females were approximately 25% higher than that in males, the pattern of familial correlations did not follow the expectations under a sex-linked model, and there was no commingling in the distribution of IgM levels as expected when a trait is under the influence of a major gene.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 231-234 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Human heredity |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1990 |
Keywords
- immunoglobulin M
- inheritance
- sex-linked