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Spontaneous in vivo reversion to normal of an inherited mutation in a patient with adenosine deaminase deficiency.
Nature genetics - 1 Jul 1996
Hirschhorn R, Yang D R, Puck J M, Huie M L, Jiang C K, Kurlandsky L E
Abstract excerpt
Somatic mosaicism in genetic disease generally results from a de novo deleterious mutation during embryogenesis. We now describe a somatic mosaicism due to the unusual mechanism of in vivo reversion to normal of an inherited mutation. The propositus was an adenosine deaminase-deficient (ADA-) chi...
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