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The First Korean Adult Case of Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis Type 7 with Novel USP53 Splicing Variants by Next Generation Sequencing.
Yonsei medical journal - 1 Dec 2023
Ahn Soomin, Choi Jonggi, Jeong Sook-Hyang
Abstract excerpt
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a group of rare genetic disorders caused by defects in biliary epithelial transporters. It mostly presents as low γ-glutamyltransferase cholestasis. Recently, USP53 has been identified as one of the novel genes associated with PFIC. Herein, we report a 21-year-old Korean male patient with a late-onset PFIC. Initial work-up, including whole genome sequencing,...
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