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  • Title: Plasma cholinesterase variants - an unexpectedly high incidence of the silent allele.
    Author: Pannall PR, Potgieter GM, Raubenheimer MM.
    Journal: S Afr Med J; 1976 Feb 28; 50(9):304-6. PubMed ID: 1265565.
    Abstract:
    The silent allele is one of the rarer plasma cholinesterase variants. In a series of 9 South African families with an inherited abnormal cholinesterase, the silent allele occurs in 5. In 2 it is the only abnormal allele present while in 3 it occurs with the 'atypical' (dibucaine-resistant) form. Identification of the single silent allele requires full family studies, since its inhibition characteristics are those of the other allele present, normal or abnormal.
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