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A nonsense codon of exon 14 reduces lysyl hydroxylase mRNA and leads to aberrant RNA splicing in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI.
Mutation research - 1 Feb 2000
Pousi B, Heikkinen J, Schröter J, Pope M, Myllylä R
Abstract excerpt
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI (EDSVI) is an autosomal recessively inherited connective tissue disease, characterized by kyphoscoliosis, muscular hypotonia and ocular manifestations. The cause of the syndrome is a deficiency in the activity of lysyl hydroxylase (LH), one of the enzymes involved in the post-translational modification of collagens. We describe here an unusual compound heterozygote British patient...
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