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Genetics of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism - 1 Apr 2009
Krone Nils, Arlt Wiebke
Abstract excerpt
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is one of the most common inherited metabolic disorders. It comprises a group of autosomal recessive disorders caused by the deficiency of one of four steroidogenic enzymes involved in cortisol biosynthesis or in the electron donor enzyme P450 oxidoreductase (POR) that serves as electron donor to steroidogenic cytochrome P450 (CYP) type II enzymes. The biochemical and clinical...
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