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Clinical spectrum of human STAR variants and their genotype-phenotype correlation.
The Journal of endocrinology - 1 Sept 2024
Altinkilic Emre Murat, Augsburger Philipp, Pandey Amit V, Flück Christa E
Abstract excerpt
Biallelic variants of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (STAR/STARD1) may cause primary adrenal insufficiency and 46,XY disorder of sex development. STAR plays a pivotal role in transporting cholesterol into mitochondria where cholesterol serves as an essential substrate for initiating steroid biosynthesis by its conversion to pregnenolone. Generally, loss-of-function mutations of STAR cause the classic form...
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