title: Familial occurrence of diminished pancreatic amylase in serum--a "silent" Amy-2 allelic variant?
abstract: We describe a family of 32 subjects, including two healthy siblings without detectable pancreatic amylase in serum and five healthy relatives (one of them a sister) exhibiting subnormal pancreatic amylase activities. Comparisons of immunoreactive amylase concentrations with the corresponding amylase activities may justify the assumption of a "silent" Amy-2 allelic variant.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Clinical Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Randers, Denmark.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brock
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Mortensen
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Mortensen
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Røge
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology*; D000516:alpha-Amylases / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D000516:alpha-Amylases