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Seven functional classes of Barth syndrome mutation.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Feb 2013
Whited Kevin, Baile Matthew G, Currier Pamela, Claypool Steven M
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Barth syndrome (BTHS), a rare X-linked disease, suffer from skeletal and cardiomyopathy and bouts of cyclic neutropenia. The causative gene encodes tafazzin, a transacylase, which is the major determinant of the final acyl chain composition of the mitochondrial-specific phospholipid, CL. In addition to numerous frame shift and splice-site mutations, 36 missense mutations have been associated with...
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