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Association of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia with bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase polymorphism.
Pediatrics - 1 Jun 1999
Maruo Y, Nishizawa K, Sato H, Doida Y, Shimada M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The incidence of nonphysiologic neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is twice as high in East Asians as in whites. We studied whether the condition was associated with mutations in the gene for bilirubin uridine 5'-diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT1A1), a key enzyme of bilirubin catabolism. DESIGN: We analyzed the UGT1A1 gene in 25 Japanese neonates who had nonphysiologic hyperbilirubinemia (serum...
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