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Abstract
Now known as a Garrodian inborn error caused by the homozygous state of many different autosomal recessive mutations of the 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase gene leading to deficient conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol to cholesterol, the RSH (so-called Smith-Lemli-Opitz) syndrome has become a paradigmatic metabolic malformation syndrome in a pathway that also involves cause and pathogenesis of desmosterolosis, two forms of the Conradi-Hünermann-Happle type chondodysplasia punctata and its mouse homologs, and the Greenberg "moth-eaten" skeletal dysplasia and the CHILD syndrome. Many other defects in this pathway remain to be discovered.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10439210 DOI: 10.1097/00008480-199908000-00015
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Pediatr ISSN: 1040-8703 Impact factor: 2.856