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Analysis of peroxisomes in lymphoblasts: Zellweger syndrome and a patient with a deletion in chromosome 7.
Pediatric research - 1 May 1993
Santos M J, Moser A B, Drwinga H, Moser H W, Lazarow P B
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Lymphoblasts are useful cells for the diagnosis and basic studies of several human genetic disorders. Peroxisomal disorders are usually diagnosed by using fibroblasts or blood samples. Here, we report the characterization of peroxisomes in lymphoblasts. We demonstrated that lymphoblasts from a patient with Zellweger syndrome, the prototypical disorder of peroxisome biogenesis, contained peroxisomal ghosts like...
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