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SUBMITTER: Tanabe F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3014749 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tanabe Fuminori F Kasai Hirotake H Morimoto Michiko M Oh Shigeharu S Takada Hidetoshi H Hara Toshiro T Ito Masahiko M
Case reports in medicine 20101215
Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by oculocutaneous albinism, recurrent bacterial infections and progressive neurological dysfunction. We demonstrate novel heterogenous mutations of CHS1, the responsive gene of CHS, identified in five Japanese patients with CHS. Patients 1, 2, and 3 were siblings, and they had albinism of the skin and hair. They all had a heterogenous two-base deletion (c.5541-5542 del AA, p.Q1847fsX1850) in exon 18. Patient 4 h ...[more]