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Nine mutations including three novel mutations among Russian patients with acute intermittent porphyria.
Human mutation - 1 Nov 2005
Pischik Elena, Mehtälä Susanna, Kauppinen Raili
Abstract excerpt
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a metabolic disease due to a partial deficiency of hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS) in heme biosynthesis. Direct sequencing of genomic DNA samples of 11 unrelated Russian AIP patients, 32 of their relatives and 50 healthy controls from northwestern Russia including Saint Petersburg revealed nine mutations in the HMBS gene. Three novel mutations, c.825+5G>C,...
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