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Normal HPRT coding region in a male with gout due to HPRT deficiency.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 May 2005
Dawson Paul A, Gordon Ross B, Keough Dianne T, Emmerson Bryan T
Abstract excerpt
A deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT; EC 2.4.2.8) is associated with a spectrum of disease that ranges from gouty arthritis (OMIM 300323) to the more severe Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (OMIM 300322). To date, all cases of HPRT deficiency have shown a mutation within the HPRT cDNA. In the present study of an individual with gout due to HPRT deficiency, we found a normal HPRT...
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