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Two families with compound heterozygosity for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Jun 2010
Iwaki Takuma, Kusaka Takashi, Ohashi Ikuko, Nishida Tomoko, Imai Tadashi, Itoh Susumu
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Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency is a disorder in which 2,8-dihydroxyadenine (2,8-DHA) crystalluria is caused by a congenital deficiency in the enzyme adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT). In most cases, APRT deficiency is caused by autosomal recessive inheritance of a homozygote of the mutant gene APRT*Q0 or APRT*J, but there are also some cases in which the disorder is caused by the compound...
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