THE RADIAL IMMUNODIFFUSION ASSAY FOR PLASMA HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN (HRG) BASED ON A POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY, SHOWS A DIFFERENT SPECIFICITYTOWARDS THE 2 VARIANTS OF A COMMON AMINO-ACID POLYMORPHISM
Bc. Hennis et al., THE RADIAL IMMUNODIFFUSION ASSAY FOR PLASMA HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN (HRG) BASED ON A POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY, SHOWS A DIFFERENT SPECIFICITYTOWARDS THE 2 VARIANTS OF A COMMON AMINO-ACID POLYMORPHISM, Fibrinolysis, 10, 1996, pp. 133-134
Recently, two molecular weight forms of Histidine-rich Glycoprotein ha
ve been described which explain 59% of the variation in plasma HRG lev
els, Here, we demonstrate that this can partly be ascribed to a differ
ence in specificity of the immune assay for HRG towards the two allele
s of the polymorphism.