Two types of variant EcoRI restriction enzyme patterns of albumin-gene DNA fragments are found in different inbred strains of rats and reflect allelic polymorphism. The structural basis of the two allelic forms has been analyzed by mapping the EcoRI fragments using cloned albumin cDNA probes corresponding to the 5' or 3' end of the rat albumin mRNA and different genomic subclones. Additional restriction fragment length polymorphism has been detected using the restriction endonucleases HindIII and MspI. The results suggest that the two allelic variants differ from each other by multiple cleavage-site variations (base-pair substitutions) and by an insertion or deletion of DNA sequences. An extensive DNA sequence variation appears to exist between the two forms of the albumin gene; we have estimated that as much as 4% of the nucleotides in this region varied between the two alleles. All of this genetic variation is found in the intervening sequences of the gene and has no phenotypic manifestation.
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