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Genetic heterogeneity of peroxisome biogenesis disorders among Japanese patients: evidence for a founder haplotype for the most common PEX10 gene mutation.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Jul 2003
Shimozawa Nobuyuki, Nagase Tomoko, Takemoto Yasuhiko, Ohura Toshihiro, Suzuki Yasuyuki, Kondo Naomi
Abstract excerpt
We, as the only diagnostic center for peroxisome biogenesis disorders (PBD) in Japan, identified a total of 31 Japanese patients with PBD during the last 20 years. They were 27 patients with Zellweger syndrome (ZS), including two sib cases, three with neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (NALD) and one with rhizomelic type chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP). No patient with infantile Refsum disease has been detected....
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