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Frequent mutation reversion inversely correlates with clinical severity in a genetic liver disease, hereditary tyrosinemia.
Human pathology - 1 Dec 2003
Demers Sylvie I, Russo Pierre, Lettre Francine, Tanguay Robert M
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary tyrosinemia type I (HTI), a severe disease affecting primarily the liver, is caused by a deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). HTI is clinically heterogeneous, with no correlation between genotype and phenotype. Reversion of FAH mutant alleles in livers of HTI patients was reported previously, but the clinical significance of this phenomenon has not been fully documented. In the present...
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