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Acute intermittent porphyria: mutation analysis and identification of gene carriers in a German kindred by PCR-DGGE analysis.
Skin pharmacology and applied skin physiology - 1 Jan 2000
Petrides P E
Abstract excerpt
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is the most frequent acute porphyria. Symptomatic patients and asymptomatic gene carriers are characterized by a reduction of their porphobilinogen-deaminase (PBG-D) activity to 50%, which is sufficient for porphyrin biosynthesis. PBG-D is encoded by two different mRNAs which are expressed in a tissue-specific manner. In classical AIP, the enzyme activity is reduced in...
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