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Overview of symptoms and treatment for lysinuric protein intolerance.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2019
Noguchi Atsuko, Takahashi Tsutomu
Abstract excerpt
Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is caused by dysfunction of the dibasic amino acid membrane transport owing to the functional abnormality of y+L amino acid transporter-1 (y+ LAT-1). LPI is associated with autosomal recessive inheritance and pathological variants in the responsible gene SLC7A7 are also observed. The pathophysiology of this disease had earlier been understood as a transport defect in polarized...
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