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Phenotypic heterogeneity in biochemical parameters correlates with mutations in AGPAT2 or Seipin genes among Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy patients.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2005
Gomes K B, Pardini V Cavalcanti, Ferreira A Clayton de Souza, Fernandes A P
Abstract excerpt
The Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy (BSCL) syndrome is characterized by a near-total congenital absence of fat and predisposition to develop diabetes mellitus. We have previously reported that 22 patients from 16 consanguineous pedigrees living in the northeastern region of Brazil had a homozygous 669insA mutation in the Seipin gene (BSCL2 locus), while all of the 10 investigated subjects from the...
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