Article
Niemann-Pick disease type C.
Clinical genetics - 1 Oct 2003
Vanier M T, Millat G
Abstract excerpt
Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is an autosomal recessive neurovisceral lipid storage with a wide spectrum of clinical phenotypes. At the cellular level, the disorder is characterized by accumulation of unesterified cholesterol and glycolipids in the lysosomal/late endosomal system. Approximatively 95% of patients have mutations in the NPC1 gene (mapped at 18q11) which encodes a large membrane glycoprotein...
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