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A Japanese boy with adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) deficiency caused by compound heterozygosity including a novel missense mutation in APRT gene.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) - 1 Dec 2011
Nozue Hiroki, Kamoda Tomohiro, Saitoh Hisako, Ichikawa Kunio, Taniguchi Atsuo
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UNLABELLED: We describe a 2-year-old Japanese boy with radiolucent urolithiasis and recurrent urinary tract infection. Urinalysis showed typical 2,8-dihydroxyadenine (2,8-DHA) crystals, leading to a diagnosis as adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) deficiency. The sensitivity of proliferating T cells to an adenine analogue, whose cytotoxicity is dependent on APRT, showed that he was homozygous or compound...
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