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Genetic and biochemical characterization of 16 acute intermittent porphyria cases with a high prevalence of the R173W mutation.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Aug 2006
To-Figueras J, Badenas C, Carrera C, Muñoz C, Milá M, Lecha M, Herrero C
Abstract excerpt
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a metabolic disease with a variable prevalence among different countries. In some areas of southern Europe it remains to be fully evaluated. We undertook a genetic and biochemical study of 16 unrelated Spanish AIP patients and relatives. The genetic analyses showed they harboured the following mutations in the porphobilinogen deaminase gene: R173W, G111R, L278P, L238P, R116W,...
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