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Mechanisms for phenotypic variation in Lesch-Nyhan disease and its variants.
Human genetics - 1 Jan 2011
Sampat Radhika, Fu Rong, Larovere Laura E, Torres Rosa J, Ceballos-Picot Irene, Fischbach Michel, de Kremer Raquel, Schretlen David J, Puig Juan Garcia, Jinnah H A
Abstract excerpt
Lesch-Nyhan disease is a neurogenetic disorder caused by mutation of the HPRT1 gene on the X chromosome. There is significant variation in the clinical phenotype, with more than 300 different known mutations. There are few studies that have addressed whether similar mutations result in similar phenotypes across different patients because hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGprt) deficiency is rare,...
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