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Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency: identification and expression of missense mutations C29R, R886H and R235W.
Human genetics - 1 Dec 1997
Vreken P, Van Kuilenburg A B, Meinsma R, van Gennip A H
Abstract excerpt
Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency (McKusick 274270) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by thymine-uraciluria in homozygous-deficient patients and associated with a variable clinical phenotype. Cancer patients with this defect should not be treated with the usual dose of 5-fluorouracil because of the expected lethal toxicity. In addition, heterozygosity for mutations in the DPD gene...
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