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RSH (so-called Smith-Lemli-Opitz) syndrome.
Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Aug 1999
Opitz J M
Abstract excerpt
Now known as a Garrodian inborn error caused by the homozygous state of many different autosomal recessive mutations of the 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase gene leading to deficient conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol to cholesterol, the RSH (so-called Smith-Lemli-Opitz) syndrome has become a paradigmatic metabolic malformation syndrome in a pathway that also involves cause and pathogenesis of desmosterolosis, two...
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