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Clinic and genetic evaluation of variegate porphyria (VP) in a large family from the Balearic Islands.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Dec 2009
Bonnin A, Picornell A, Orfila J, Castro J A, Ramon M M
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Variegate porphyria (VP) (an autosomal dominant disease), is clinically characterized by skin photosensitivity and/or acute neurovisceral crises and biochemically by high levels of faecal protoporphyrin and coproporphyrin. It results from the partial deficiency of protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPOX...
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