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Deletion of the Wilson's disease gene in hereditary hepatitis LEC rats.
Idengaku zasshi - 1 Feb 1995
Ono T, Fukumoto R, Kondoh Y, Yoshida M C
Abstract excerpt
LEC rats develop disorder of cooper metabolism and hepatitis similar to those of human Wilson's disease. We recently demonstrated that the gene responsible for hepatitis (hts) of LEC rats is homologous to Wilson's disease gene (WD). The present study showed a deletion of at least 90 base pair of WD cDNA in LEC rats, which corresponds to nucleotides 3981 to 4071 in human WD cDNA sequence. This deletion was linked...
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