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Partial defect in the cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme P450scc (CYP11A1) resembling nonclassic congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Mar 2011
Sahakitrungruang Taninee, Tee Meng Kian, Blackett Piers R, Miller Walter L
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CONTEXT: The cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme (P450scc), encoded by the CYP11A1 gene, converts cholesterol to pregnenolone to initiate steroidogenesis. Genetic defects in P450scc cause a rare autosomal recessive disorder that is clinically indistinguishable from congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia (lipoid CAH). Nonclassic lipoid CAH is a recently recognized disorder caused by mutations in the...
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