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A novel splicing defect (IVS6+1G>T) in a patient with pseudovitamin D deficiency rickets.
Journal of endocrinological investigation - 1 Jun 2002
Porcu L, Meloni A, Casula L, Asunis I, Marini M G, Cao A, Moi P
Abstract excerpt
A 15-month-old boy with severe rickets, that by clinical analysis was diagnosed as affected by hereditary pseudovitamin D deficiency rickets (PDDR), was evaluated for mutations in the 25OHD3 1alpha-hydroxylase gene. Molecular analysis showed a double heterozygous state for a novel splicing mutation in the invariant dinucleotide of the donor site of IVS6 and a 7 nucleotide insertion in the exon 8, which is common...
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