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Three new mutations in a gene causing Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome: clinical correlations.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Jun 1998
Shotelersuk V, Hazelwood S, Larson D, Iwata F, Kaiser-Kupfer M I, Kuehl E, Bernardini I, Gahl W A
Abstract excerpt
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) consists of oculocutaneous albinism, a platelet storage pool deficiency, and ceroid lipofuscinosis. HPS is common in northwest Puerto Rico, where affected individuals are homozygous for a 16-bp duplication in the gene HPS. Two other homozygous frameshift mutations in HPS were previously identified among non-Puerto Rican patients. Eighteen non-Puerto Rican HPS families were studied...
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