Lathosterolosis
An Extremely Rare Inherited Condition Associated With Progressive Liver Disease
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Pankaj Prasun
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Pankaj Prasun, MD, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place - Box 1497, New York, NY 10029 (e-mail: [email protected]).Search for more papers by this authorElisabeth Ferguson
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorAyuko Iverson
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorMichael Dolinger
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorStephen C. Ward
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorRonen Arnon
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Pankaj Prasun
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Pankaj Prasun, MD, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place - Box 1497, New York, NY 10029 (e-mail: [email protected]).Search for more papers by this authorElisabeth Ferguson
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorAyuko Iverson
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorEmalyn Cork
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorMichael Dolinger
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorStephen C. Ward
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Search for more papers by this authorRonen Arnon
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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