Article
Serum pseudocholinesterase variants in Mexican-born patients with lepromatous leprosy.
International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association - 1 Jan 2000
Rea T H, Ng W G
Abstract excerpt
No difference in the distribution of serum pseudocholinesterase variants could be found in lepromatous leprosy patients as compared with controls. The variety of reported relationships of pseudocholinesterase variants in leprosy suggests that only in some populations is a locus regulating pseudocholinesterase genetically linked to a hypothetical locus regulating susceptibility to leprosy.
Topics
- Butyrylcholinesterase
- Cholinesterases
- Dibucaine
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Leprosy
- Mexico
- United States