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DNA studies suggest that six loci control the synthesis of human salivary proline-rich proteins (PRPs). Genes at two of these loci (proposed names, PRH1 and PRH2) contain regions that strongly hybridize to a probe made from a cDNA in which sites for the restriction enzyme HaeIII occur repeatedly; they code for the acidic PRPs. Genes at the remaining four loci (PRB1, PRB2, PRB3, and PRB4) contain regions that strongly hybridize to a probe with repeated BstN1 sites; they probably code for the basic and glycosylated PRPs. In contrast to these data suggesting six loci forming two gene subfamilies, studies of protein polymorphisms and families have led to the postulation of 13 loci with 11 common null alleles. The discrepancy in the number of loci is partly resolved by the hypothesis that the three acidic PRPs, Db, Pa, and PIF, are coded for by alleles at one of the HaeIII-type loci rather than by three discrete loci.
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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants DEO 3658-19 (E.A.) and GM 20069 (O.S.). This is paper No. 2774 from the Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin—Madison.
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Maeda, N. Inheritance of the human salivary proline-rich proteins: A reinterpretation in terms of six loci forming two subfamilies. Biochem Genet 23, 455–464 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00499086
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