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A novel mutation in ornithine transcarbamylase gene causing mild intermittent hyperammonemia

Sarar Mohamed, Muddathir H. Hamad, Altaf A. Kondkar and Khaled K. Abu-Amero
Saudi Medical Journal October 2015, 36 (10) 1229-1232; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.12127
Sarar Mohamed
From the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed, Hamad), and the Ophthalmic Genetics Laboratory (Kondkar, Abu-Amero), Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Muddathir H. Hamad
From the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed, Hamad), and the Ophthalmic Genetics Laboratory (Kondkar, Abu-Amero), Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Altaf A. Kondkar
From the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed, Hamad), and the Ophthalmic Genetics Laboratory (Kondkar, Abu-Amero), Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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Khaled K. Abu-Amero
From the Department of Pediatrics (Mohamed, Hamad), and the Ophthalmic Genetics Laboratory (Kondkar, Abu-Amero), Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sarar Mohamed, Muddathir H. Hamad, Altaf A. Kondkar, Khaled K. Abu-Amero
Saudi Medical Journal Oct 2015, 36 (10) 1229-1232; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2015.10.12127

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Sarar Mohamed, Muddathir H. Hamad, Altaf A. Kondkar, Khaled K. Abu-Amero
Saudi Medical Journal Oct 2015, 36 (10) 1229-1232; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2015.10.12127
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