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Novel nonsense mutation of ABHD5 in Dorfman-Chanarin syndrome with unusual findings: a challenge for genotype-phenotype correlation.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Mar 2012
Aggarwal Shagun, Maras Jaswinder Singh, Alam Seema, Khanna Rajeev, Gupta Sanjeev Kumar, Ahuja Arvind
Abstract excerpt
Dorfman-Chanarin syndrome is a rare neutral lipid disorder characterised by icthyosis, hepatic steatosis and multisystemic involvement of varying magnitude. It is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the ABHD5 gene. We report a consanguineous family of Afgani origin, with four affected siblings who were found to have a novel homozygous nonsense mutation g. [27606 G > T]; [27606 G > T]. The...
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