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Clinical and cellular characterisation of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 6.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Dec 2009
Huizing M, Pederson B, Hess R A, Griffin A, Helip-Wooley A, Westbroek W, Dorward H, O'Brien K J, Golas G, Tsilou E, White J G, Gahl W A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In the last decade, Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) has arisen as an instructive disorder for cell biologists to study the biogenesis of lysosome related organelles (LROs). Of the eight human HPS subtypes, only subtypes 1 through 5 are well described. AIM: To characterise extensively the HPS-6 subtype, caused by defects in HPS6, a subunit of the biogenesis of lysosome related organelles complex-2...
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