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Next generation sequencing with copy number variant detection expands the phenotypic spectrum of HSD17B4-deficiency.
BMC medical genetics - 6 Mar 2014
Lieber Daniel S, Hershman Steven G, Slate Nancy G, Calvo Sarah E, Sims Katherine B, Schmahmann Jeremy D, Mootha Vamsi K
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BACKGROUND: D-bifunctional protein deficiency, caused by recessive mutations in HSD17B4, is a severe, infantile-onset disorder of peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation. Few affected patients survive past two years of age. Compound heterozygous mutations in HSD17B4 have also been reported in two sisters diagnosed with Perrault syndrome (MIM # 233400), who presented in adolescence with ovarian dysgenesis, hearing loss,...
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