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Molecular Diagnosis of Steroid 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency: A Practical Approach.
Frontiers in endocrinology - 1 Jan 2022
Arriba María, Ezquieta Begoña
Abstract excerpt
Adrenal insufficiency in paediatric patients is mostly due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a severe monogenic disease caused by steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD, encoded by the CYP21A2 gene) in 95% of cases. CYP21A2 genotyping requires careful analyses that guaranty gene-specific PCR, accurate definition of pseudogene-gene chimeras, gene duplications and allele dropout avoidance. A small panel...
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