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No evidence of maternal cell colonization in reverted liver nodules of tyrosinemia type I patients.
Gastroenterology - 1 Nov 2004
Bergeron Anne, Lettre Francine, Russo Pierre, Morissette Jean, Tanguay Robert M
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Hereditary tyrosinemia type I (HTI) is a recessively inherited disease caused by a deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH), the last enzyme of the tyrosine catabolic pathway. The mosaic pattern of FAH expression observed in the livers of >85% of studied patients was shown to result from the correction of the mutation in one of the FAH alleles. Bilateral cell trafficking can occur...
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