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Koiwai, O., Yasui, Y., Hasada, K. et al. Three Japanese patients with Crigler-Najjar syndrome type I carry an identical nonsense mutation in the gene for UDP-glucuronosyltransferase. Jap J Human Genet 40, 253–257 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01876183
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