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ABCC8 mutation allele frequency in the Ashkenazi Jewish population and risk of focal hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Oct 2011
Glaser Benjamin, Blech Ilana, Krakinovsky Yocheved, Ekstein Josef, Gillis David, Mazor-Aronovitch Kineret, Landau Heddy, Abeliovich Dvorah
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Congenital hyperinsulinism of infancy (OMIM# 256450) is a devastating disease most commonly caused by dominant or recessive mutations in either ABCC8 or KCNJ11, the genes that encode for the β-cell adenosine triphosphate-regulated potassium channel. A unique combination of a paternally inherited germline mutation and somatic loss-of-heterozygosity causes the focal form of the disease (Focal-congenital...
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