A founder mutation (R254X) of SLC22A5 (OCTN2) in Chinese primary carnitine deficiency patients

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Mutations in the SLC22A5 gene, which encodes for the plasma membrane carnitine transporter OCTN2, cause primary carnitine deficiency (PCD). After our first report of OCTN2 mutations in Chinese, three more Chinese PCD patients were identified. The parents of these families were non-consanguineous and these families were unrelated. Two novel truncating mutations were found: R254X, a single-base mutation at cDNA...

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