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Molecular analysis of 40 Italian patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II: New mutations in the iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) gene.
Human mutation - 1 Aug 2001
Filocamo M, Bonuccelli G, Corsolini F, Mazzotti R, Cusano R, Gatti R
Abstract excerpt
Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS2, or Hunter syndrome), rare X-linked lysosomal storage disorder, results from deleterious mutations in the iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) gene. We report here the mutational analysis of a total of 40 unrelated Italian MPS II patients ranging from mild to severe phenotype. We are able to assign the genotype to 29 of them (72.5%), identifying 22 different mutations, five of which are...
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