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A novel intronic mutation results in the use of a cryptic splice acceptor site within the coding region of UGT1A1, causing Crigler-Najjar syndrome type 1.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Feb 2002
Sappal Baljit S, Ghosh Siddhartha S, Shneider Benjamin, Kadakol Ajit, Chowdhury Jayanta Roy, Chowdhury Namita Roy
Abstract excerpt
Crigler-Najjar syndrome type 1 (CN-1) is characterized by severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia due to an inherited deficiency of hepatic bilirubin uridinediphosphoglucuronate glucuronosyltransferase (UGT1A1), inherited as an autosomal recessive characteristic. CN-1 is potentially lethal because of the risk of bilirubin encephalopathy (kernicterus). Genetic lesions of the coding region of the UGT1A1 gene are...
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