RARE VARIANTS OF SOME PLACENTAL ENZYMES IN DIFFERENT CASTE GROUPS OF ANDHRA PRADESH

A total of 1622 placental samples belonging to Brahmins (280), Vysyas (196), Muslims (294) and Scheduled Caste (852) groups living in Andhra Pradesh were studied electrophoretically with respect to different enzyme markers, LDH, MDH and GDH. No LDH variant reported to date was observed in the present study. However, one sample from Brahmins, two samples from Vysya, five samples from Muslims (2 from Shia and 3 from Khoja) and seven samples from among the Scheduled Castes (1 from Madiga, 2 from Paky and 4 from Mochi) displayed the variant types of M.MDH. No variant type of the soluble MDH was observed in the study. Further, no placental sample showed any genetic variant of glutamate dehydrogenase enzyme system.