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Positive maternal serum triple test screening in severe early onset hypophosphatasia.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Jul 2004
Witters Ingrid, Moerman Philippe, Mornet Etienne, Fryns Jean-Pierre
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Hypophosphatasia is a rare heritable inborn error of metabolism characterized by a liver/bone/kidney alkaline phosphatase defective bone mineralization due to mutations in the tissue-non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNS-ALP) gene. To date 128 mutations are described in the TNS-ALP gene located on the short arm of chromosome 1. The clinical presentation of hypophosphatasia is variable ranging from...
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