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Identification and characterization of HMBS gene mutations in Spanish patients with acute intermittent porphyria.
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 1 Jul 2009
Méndez M, Morán-Jiménez M J, Gomez-Abecia S, García-Bravo M, Garrido-Astray M C, Fontanellas A, Poblete-Gutiérrez P, Frank J, Enriquez de Salamanca R
Abstract excerpt
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), the most common acute hepatic porphyria, is an autosomal dominant disorder with low penetrance that results from a partial deficiency of hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS), the third enzyme in the heme biosynthetic pathway. The disease is clinically characterized by acute neurovisceral attacks that are precipitated by several factors including certain drugs, steroid hormones,...
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