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Mutation of the RET ligand, neurturin, supports multigenic inheritance in Hirschsprung disease.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 1998
Doray B, Salomon R, Amiel J, Pelet A, Touraine R, Billaud M, Attié T, Bachy B, Munnich A, Lyonnet S
Abstract excerpt
Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a frequent neurocristopathy characterized by the absence of submucosal and myenteric plexuses in a variable length of the gastrointestinal tract. Pedigrees and segregation analyses suggested the involvement of one or several dominant genes with low penetrance in HSCR. Considering that RET and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) mutations have been reported in the...
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