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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Aust Vet J. 2009;87(1):39–44. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-0813.2008.00381.x

Table 1.

Pyruvate kinase mutation analysis of Abyssinian and Somali cats in Australia, including frequency of the normal (wild-type) allele p, and mutant (variant) allele q

Breed Homozygous (affected)
Heterozygous (carriers)
Normals (negative)
Total Allele frequency
M F M F M F p q
Abyssinian 0 0 3 6 11 16 36 0.87 0.13
Somali 0 3 6 2 3 10 24 0.71 0.29
Total/together 3 (5%) 17 (28%) 40 (67%) 60 0.81 0.19