Fish-eye disease is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by specific LCAT mutations that merely alter the alpha-LCAT function. The cardinal clinical symptom is eye apocities that resemble boiled fish (that's why the name). Renal involvment as the glomerulosclerosis in Norum disease is less common.
Biochemically the enzyme LCAT in fish-eye disease is partially impaired. Only the alpha-LCAT function is altered.
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None () A further case of fish-eye disease. |
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OMIM.ORG article Omim 136120 |
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Orphanet article Orphanet ID 79292 |
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Wikipedia article Wikipedia EN (Lecithin_cholesterol_acyltransferase_deficiency) |