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Inherited disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Jun 2001
Haas D, Kelley R I, Hoffmann G F
Abstract excerpt
Defects of cholesterol biosynthesis comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders, most of which have only been recently described and more are likely to follow in the near future. Mevalonic aciduria (MVA) and hyperimmunoglobulinemia D syndrome (HIDS) are due to allelic defects in mevalonate kinase, an enzyme located proximally in the pathway of cholesterol and nonsterol isoprene biosynthesis. Clinically, patients...
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