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MCM4 mutation causes adrenal failure, short stature, and natural killer cell deficiency in humans.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Mar 2012
Hughes Claire R, Guasti Leonardo, Meimaridou Eirini, Chuang Chen-Hua, Schimenti John C, King Peter J, Costigan Colm, Clark Adrian J L, Metherell Louise A
Abstract excerpt
An interesting variant of familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD), an autosomal recessive form of adrenal failure, exists in a genetically isolated Irish population. In addition to hypocortisolemia, affected children show signs of growth failure, increased chromosomal breakage, and NK cell deficiency. Targeted exome sequencing in 8 patients identified a variant (c.71-1insG) in minichromosome...
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