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Hereditary fructose intolerance caused by a nonsense mutation of the aldolase B gene.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1990
Kajihara S, Mukai T, Arai Y, Owada M, Kitagawa T, Hori K
Abstract excerpt
The nucleotide sequence of a patient's aldolase B gene was determined and showed a substitution of a single nucleotide (C----A) at position 720 in the coding region, which resulted in the 240th amino acid, a cysteine, being changed to a stop codon (TGC----TGA). By an allele-specific oligonucleotide probe and polymerase chain reaction, the patient was shown to be homozygous for the mutation. To examine whether...
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