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Combined 17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency due to p.R96W mutation in the CYP17 gene in a Brazilian patient.
Arquivos brasileiros de endocrinologia e metabologia - 1 Nov 2010
Costenaro Fabíola, Rodrigues Ticiana C, Kater Claudio E, Auchus Richard J, Papari-Zareei Mahboubeh, Czepielewski Mauro A
Abstract excerpt
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) resulting from 17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disease and the second most common form of CAH in Brazil. We describe the case of a Brazilian patient with CYP17 deficiency (17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency) caused by a homozygous p.R96W mutation on exon 1 of the CYP17 gene, an unusual genotype in Brazilian patients with this form of...
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