Compound heterozygosity for a Wolman mutation is frequent among patients with cholesteryl ester storage disease.

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Cholesteryl ester storage disease and Wolman disease are rare autosomal recessive lipoprotein-processing disorders caused by mutations in the gene encoding human lysosomal acid lipase. Thus far we have elucidated the genetic defects in 15 unrelated CESD patients. Seven were homozygotes for the prevalent hLAL exon 8 splice junction mutation which results in incomplete exon skipping, while eight probands were...

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