Heritability of Plasma Cholinesterase Activity in Inbred Mouse Strains

Charles Angel, Dorsey T. Mahin, Richard D. Farris, Kent T. Woodward, John M. Yuhas, John B. Storer

Science · 1967 · 14 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

The activity of cholinesterase was measured in the plasma of 543 mice of both sexes from 23 inbred mouse strains. Differences between strains were highly significant. The heritability of this characteristic was 0.70 in females and 0.67 in males.

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