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Inactivating mutations in the 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 1alpha-hydroxylase gene in patients with pseudovitamin D-deficiency rickets.
The New England journal of medicine - 5 Mar 1998
Kitanaka S, Takeyama K, Murayama A, Sato T, Okumura K, Nogami M, Hasegawa Y, Niimi H, Yanagisawa J, Tanaka T, Kato S
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BACKGROUND: Pseudovitamin D-deficiency rickets is characterized by the early onset of rickets with hypocalcemia and is thought to be caused by a deficit in renal 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 1alpha-hydroxylase, the key enzyme for the synthesis of 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. METHODS: We cloned human 25...
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