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The pathophysiology and genetics of congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia.
The New England journal of medicine - 19 Dec 1996
Bose H S, Sugawara T, Strauss J F, Miller W L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia results in severe impairment of steroid biosynthesis in the adrenal glands and gonads that is manifested both in utero and postnatally. We recently found mutations in the gene for the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein in four patients with this syndrome, but it was not clear whether all patients have such mutations or why there is substantial clinical...
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