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[A new form of Oculocutaneous albinism, OCA4].
Yi chuan = Hereditas - 1 Sept 2006
Li Hong-Yi, Duan Hong-Lei, Zheng Hui
Abstract excerpt
Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a complex genetic disease with great clinical heterogeneity. Four different types of OCA have been reported to date (OCA1, OCA2, OCA3, and OCA4). OCA4 was firstly reported in a Turkish OCA patient. The gene responsible for OCA4 is the human homologue of the mouse underwhite (uw) gene, which encodes the mem-brane-associated transporter protein (MATP). MATP gene is located on...
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