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Molecular diagnostics of acute intermittent porphyria.
Expert review of molecular diagnostics - 1 Mar 2004
Kauppinen Raili
Abstract excerpt
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an inherited metabolic disease with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. The disease is caused by a partial deficiency of porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD) in heme biosynthesis. Since biochemical measurements of patients and their healthy relatives overlap, the diagnosis of AIP may remain undetermined at the symptom-free phase. Mutation detection in AIP, which...
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