Article
Salt-wasting congenital adrenal hyperplasia: detection of mutations in CYP21B gene in a Chilean population.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Sept 1998
Fardella C E, Poggi H, Pineda P, Soto J, Torrealba I, Cattani A, Oestreicher E, Foradori A
Abstract excerpt
The steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD) is the most frequent cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. We have characterized the disease-causing mutations in the 21-hydroxylase genes of 63 patients with salt-wasting congenital adrenal hyperplasia from a Chilean population of Hispanic origin,...
Topics
- Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
- Alleles
- Chile
- Female
- Gene Deletion
- Genotype
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA Splicing
- Steroid 21-Hydroxylase
