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Genetic defects and clinical characteristics of patients with a form of oculocutaneous albinism (Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome).
The New England journal of medicine - 30 Apr 1998
Gahl W A, Brantly M, Kaiser-Kupfer M I, Iwata F, Hazelwood S, Shotelersuk V, Duffy L F, Kuehl E M, Troendle J, Bernardini I
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome is characterized by oculocutaneous albinism, a storage-pool deficiency, and lysosomal accumulation of ceroid lipofuscin, which causes pulmonary fibrosis and granulomatous colitis in some cases. All identified affected patients in northwest Puerto Rico are hom...
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