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Homozygosity for alanine in the mitochondrial targeting sequence of superoxide dismutase and risk for severe alcoholic liver disease.
Gastroenterology - 1 May 2001
Degoul F, Sutton A, Mansouri A, Cepanec C, Degott C, Fromenty B, Beaugrand M, Valla D, Pessayre D
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: For similar ethanol consumption, some subjects only develop macrovacuolar steatosis whereas others develop severe liver lesions. A genetic dimorphism encodes for either alanine or valine in the mitochondrial targeting sequence of manganese superoxide dismutase and could modulate its mitochondrial import. METHODS: The DNA of 71 white patients with alcoholic liver disease and 79 white blood...
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