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A mutation in the human MPDU1 gene causes congenital disorder of glycosylation type If (CDG-If).
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Dec 2001
Kranz C, Denecke J, Lehrman M A, Ray S, Kienz P, Kreissel G, Sagi D, Peter-Katalinic J, Freeze H H, Schmid T, Jackowski-Dohrmann S, Harms E, Marquardt T
Abstract excerpt
We describe a new congenital disorder of glycosylation, CDG-If. The patient has severe psychomotor retardation, seizures, failure to thrive, dry skin and scaling with erythroderma, and impaired vision. CDG-If is caused by a defect in the gene MPDU1, the human homologue of hamster Lec35, and is the first disorder to affect the use, rather than the biosynthesis, of donor substrates for lipid-linked...
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