Erythrocyte Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) polymorphism among residents of Barangay Timugan, Los Baños, Laguna

Date

10-1986

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Biology

Major Course

Major in Cell Biology

College

College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Rita P. Laude

Abstract

Horizontal starch gel electrophoresis of erythrocyte hemolysates from 108 randomly selected individuals of Barangay Timugan, Los Banos, Laguna showed ADH polymorphism at pH 8.6. Two patterns, ADH slow slow (ADHs) and ADH fast (ADHf) were determined with and Rf value of 0.20 and 0.44, respectively. ADHf was present in 34.26% of the samples while 65.74% exhibited both the ADHf banding patterns.

No significant correlation between ADH banding patterns and alcohol drinking behavior was observed at 5% level of significance and degrees of freedom, df=2.

The association between color blindness and alcohol drinking behavior was not statistically assessed due to the unfitness to the Chi-square test. Three color vision defective non-drinkers and a simple light color vision defective were observed in the survey.

Increase in the population size of alcoholic and use of more sensitive color vision test are recommended to confirm the study on the correlation between color vision defects and alcohol drinking.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

Thesis

Document Type

Thesis

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