ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1979
Page Count: 5

An Improved Means of Enzyme Typing of Hair Roots Using Isoelectric Focusing
Sutton, JG
Assistant scientific officer, senior scientific officer, and senior principal scientific officer, Home Office Central Research Establishment, Berkshire

Whitehead, PH
Assistant scientific officer, senior scientific officer, and senior principal scientific officer, Home Office Central Research Establishment, Berkshire

Burgess, RM
Assistant scientific officer, senior scientific officer, and senior principal scientific officer, Home Office Central Research Establishment, Berkshire

(Received 18 September 1978; accepted 18 October 1978)

Abstract

A recent publication [1] described the characterization of human hair using a technique dependent on starch gel electrophoresis of phosphoglucomutase (PGM) from hair root sheath cells. Similar, independent work has been reported elsewhere [2,3]. Phosphoglucomutase has three common phenotypes, PGM¹ 1, PGM¹ 2–1, and PGM¹ 2, observable by starch gel electrophoresis and hence typing of hair roots in this manner is a valuable aid to discriminating human hairs.

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Paper ID: JFS10846J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10846J
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