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Frasier syndrome
Clinical feature:
Definition: The Frasier syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder. It's clinical features comprise progessive renal disease and male pseudohermaphroditism. The reason for this disorder is a heterozygous germline mutation affecting one of the four splice variants of the WT1 gene.
Pathogenesis: The disease is caused by a splice mutation an alternative splice site in intron 9. This leads to domination of a the splice variant without an additional 3 amino acids KTS between the third and fourth zinc finger. The disturbed KTS+/+ ratio is responsible for the phenotype.
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