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LAT1 gene variants--potential factors influencing the clinical course of phenylketonuria.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Oct 2006
Bik-Multanowski Miroslaw, Pietrzyk Jacek J
Abstract excerpt
The LAT1 amino acid exchanger is responsible for phenylalanine transport across the blood-brain barrier. As phenylalanine excess in the brain leads to mental retardation in untreated patients with phenylketonuria, mutations of the LAT1 gene can be responsible for milder clinical manifestations (l...
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