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Frequencies of the dibucaine resistant variant of pseudocholinesterase and of the electrophoretic C5 + component have been investigated in a sample of 992 Finnish Lapps and 317 Finns. Skolt Lapps show distinctly higher values than the other Lapps and Finns of this area. The lowest frequency of the C5 + component has been found in Finns. The frequencies found in the various population groups of this study fit well into the range reported for the human populations studied so far.
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Direktor: Prof. Dr. W. Lehmann
Direktor: Prof. Dr. H. W. Goedde
Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
A part of this paper was read at the International Biological Programme Seminar “Man in the Arctic”, 21–24 May 1970 at Christian Albrecht-University at Kiel, West-Germany.
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Singh, S., Jensen, M., Goedde, H.W. et al. Pseudocholinesterase polymorphism among Lapp populations in Finland. Hum Genet 12, 131–135 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291468
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