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Molecular diagnosis of a familial nonhemolytic hyperbilirubinemia (Gilbert's syndrome) in healthy subjects.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Oct 2000
Borlak J, Thum T, Landt O, Erb K, Hermann R
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Recent research has shown that congenital nonhemolytic low grade hyperbilirubinemias in patients with Gilbert's syndrome (GS) are linked to mutations in the TATA box upstream of the uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose glucuronosyltransferase (UGT1A1) gene leading to an impaired bilirubin glucuronidation. In routine clinical practice GS patients can, however, only be suspected by exclusion of other causes of...
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