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Nonclassic steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency due to a homozygous V281L mutation in CYP21A2 detected by the neonatal mass-screening program in Japan.
Endocrine journal - 1 Dec 2007
Shinagawa Takashi, Horikawa Reiko, Isojima Tsuyoshi, Naiki Yasuhiro, Tanaka Toshiaki, Katsumata Noriyuki
Abstract excerpt
Since 1989, neonatal mass screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) has been carried out in Japan. The mass screening has detected not only the patients with the classic form of steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD), but also those with the nonclassic (NC) form of 21-OHD, and the mo...
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