Butyrylcholinesterase genes in individuals with abnormal inhibition numbers and with trace activity: One common mutation and two novel silent genes

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 302-310

  Dey, Dilip Chandra ^a   Maekawa, Masato ^b   Sudo, Kayoko ^c   Kanno, Takashi ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Missense mutation; Nonsense mutation; PCR RFLP; PCR SSCP; Phenotyping

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; CINCHOCAINE; DNA; FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0031883404     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000456329803500217     Document Type: Article

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