Butyrylcholinesterase genetic variability in Guarani Amerindians from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul

Human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE; EC 3.1.1.8) is a polymorphic enzyme coded by the BCHE gene (3q26.1-q26.2) while the CHE2 gene (2q33-q35) determines a still not characterized substance that forms a complex with BChE (C5), being the CHE2 C5+ and CHE2 C5- phenotypes detected in electrophoresis. The...

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Main Authors: Lupe Furtado, Ricardo L. R. Souza, Luiza T. Tsuneto, Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler, Eleidi A. Chautard-Freire-Maia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2006-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572006000100002