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The clinical course and genetic defect in the PCFT gene in a 27-year-old woman with hereditary folate malabsorption.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Sept 2008
Min Sang Hee, Oh Sun Young, Karp George I, Poncz Mortimer, Zhao Rongbao, Goldman I David
Abstract excerpt
We report 2 sequential homozygous mutations in the recently cloned proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT) gene, resulting in the absence of this protein, in a 27-year-old woman with hereditary folate malabsorption, normal in all respects having completed higher education, who has been treated with parenteral 5-formyltetrahydrofolate since infancy.
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