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Severe perinatal hypophosphatasia due to homozygous deletion of T at nucleotide 1559 in the tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase gene.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Sept 2003
Sawai Hideaki, Kanazawa Nozomi, Tsukahara Yuki, Koike Kazunori, Udagawa Hideo, Koyama Koji, Mornet Etienne
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OBJECTIVES: Hypophosphatasia is an inherited disorder characterized by defective bone mineralization and deficiency of tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP) activity. This disorder is caused by various mutations in the TNSALP gene. We report here hypophosphatasia in two siblings, both of them severely affected by the perinatal (lethal) type. METHODS: We diagnosed the first infant by clinical and...
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