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Identification of a point mutation associated with a silent phenotype of human serum butyrylcholinesterase--a case of familial cholinesterasemia.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 22 Jun 1998
Sakamoto N, Hidaka K, Fujisawa T, Maeda M, Iuchi I
Abstract excerpt
A point mutation which caused a silent phenotype of human serum butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) was identified in the DNA of a 47-year-old Japanese woman who visited our hospital complaining of hypertension. The propositus exhibited an unusually low level of BChE activity, whereas her younger sister and her daughter had intermediate levels of BChE activity and her elder sister a normal level. Immunologically, the...
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