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Characterisation of CAH alleles with non-radioactive DNA single strand conformation polymorphism analysis of the CYP21 gene.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Mar 1997
Bobba A, Iolascon A, Giannattasio S, Albrizio M, Sinisi A, Prisco F, Schettini F, Marra E
Abstract excerpt
The major cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a common recessive genetic disease, is the deficiency of steroid 21-hydroxylase (21OH), a microsomal enzyme encoded by the CYP21 gene. Although several CAH causing mutations have been identified in the CYP21 gene of patients with 21OH deficiency, genotyping of the 21OH locus is quite complex because of the high frequency of gene conversion and the presence...
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