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Location of the mutation site in the first two reported cases of analbuminemia.
Clinical biochemistry - 1 Mar 2010
Ruhoff Mary S, Greene Michael W, Peters Theodore
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To find the mutation causing the first two reported cases of analbuminemia. DESIGN AND METHODS: DNA was extracted from blocks of fixed embedded liver. Exons of the albumin gene were amplified and sequenced. RESULTS: A substitution of C>T in exon 12 was found in both subjects, changing the codon CGA for arginine (aa509) to TGA, a stop codon. CONCLUSIONS: The data suggest that analbuminemia is the result...
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