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Human alpha-tocopherol transfer protein: gene structure and mutations in familial vitamin E deficiency.
Annals of neurology - 1 Mar 1996
Hentati A, Deng H X, Hung W Y, Nayer M, Ahmed M S, He X, Tim R, Stumpf D A, Siddique T, Ahmed
Abstract excerpt
Familial vitamin E deficiency (AVED) causes ataxia and peripheral neuropathy that resembles Friedreich's ataxia. AVED is thought to be caused by a defect in the transport of vitamin E in liver cells, which is the probable function of alpha-tocopherol transfer protein (alphaTTP). We have cloned the cDNA and several genomic phage clones covering the entire human alphaTTP gene and determined the junctions between...
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