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Johanson-Blizzard syndrome: expanding the phenotype of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
JOP : Journal of the pancreas - 28 Jul 2014
Ellery Kate M, Erdman Steven H
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CONTEXT: Johanson-Blizzard syndrome (JBS) is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome characterized by dysmorphic nasal alae, ectodermal abnormalities, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and early growth failure. Most patients are diagnosed by clinical criteria prenatally or in early infancy. Nonsense, frame shift and splice-site mutations of the ubiquitin ligase gene (UBR1) lead to early loss of acinar cells in...
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