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Amoung 723 sera from Thailand and 371 sera from Japan the frequency of atypical genes at the E 1 locus of pseudocholinesterase is estimated and compared with the results from other populations.
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Altland, K., Epple, F. & Goedde, H.W. Pseudocholinesterase-variants in Thailand and Japan. Hum Genet 4, 127–129 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291256
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