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ALBUMIN READING
Types of humanserum albumin, distinguished by quality mobility patterns on electrophoresis; everytype is due to a mutation of a gene controlling albumin synthesis; the mutantgenes are codominant with the usualgene for albumin A, and the group forms a system of genetic polymorphism; types include: albumin b (slow), found occasionally in persons of European ancestry; albumin Ghent (fast), found first at Ghent, Belgium; albumin Mexico (slow), found in Indians of Mexico and the southwestern United States; albumin Naskapi (fast), found in the Naskapi and another Indians of northern North America; and albumin Reading (fast), found first at Reading, England.