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Hypophosphatasia: the mutations in the tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase gene.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 2000
Mornet E
Abstract excerpt
Hypophosphatasia is an inborn error of metabolism caused by a deficiency of liver-, bone- or kidney-type alkaline phosphatase due to mutations in the tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (ALPL) gene. Most of the 65 distinct mutations described to date are missense mutations, a result which must be correlated with the great variability of clinical expression ranging from stillbirth without mineralized bone to...
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