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Molecular and phenotypic variability in the congenital alveolar proteinosis syndrome associated with inherited surfactant protein B deficiency.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Jul 1994
deMello D E, Nogee L M, Heyman S, Krous H F, Hussain M, Merritt T A, Hsueh W, Haas J E, Heidelberger K, Schumacher R
Abstract excerpt
Congenital alveolar proteinosis (CAP) is an often fatal cause of respiratory failure in term newborn infants, which has been associated with a genetic deficiency of surfactant protein B (SP-B) as a result of a frameshift mutation (121ins2) in a family with three affected siblings. In the index cases the deficiency of SP-B was associated with qualitative and quantitative abnormalities of the surfactant proteins A...
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