Clinical and molecular heterogeneity in carbonic anhydrase II deficiency and prenatal diagnosis in an Italian family.

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Carbonic anhydrase (CA) II deficiency is characterized by osteopetrosis, renal tubular acidosis, cerebral calcification, and usually severe mental retardation. We describe an Italian boy with this disease whose mental retardation was relatively mild and whose renal tubular acidosis had only a distal component. A novel mutation of a gt-->tt change of splice donor site at the 5' end of intron 6 was demonstrated....

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