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Crigler-Najjar syndrome type II is inherited both as a dominant and as a recessive trait
1 May 1996
Abstract excerpt
Crigler-Najjar syndrome type II (CN-II) is caused by a severely reduced hepatic activity of bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT). Recently, by the analysis of the genetic background of CN-II patients, it has been clarified that the patients carry homozygous missense mutations or nonsense plus missense mutations on the gene for UGT, and CN-II was inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. We encountered a...
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