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Direct and indirect mutation analyses in patients with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
Enzyme - 1 Jan 1991
Liechti-Gallati S, Dionisi C, Bachmann C, Wermuth B, Colombo J P
Abstract excerpt
Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) is one of 5 enzymes in the detoxification of ammonia to urea, and its deficiency, an X-linked disease, is the most common inborn error of urea genesis in humans. Because of the devastating nature of the disease there is a strong demand for reliable and rapid molecular analyses in OTC families in order to offer carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis. This paper presents the...
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