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Toshihiro Ohura

Researcher at Tohoku University

Publications -  115
Citations -  4380

Toshihiro Ohura is an academic researcher from Tohoku University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citrin & Compound heterozygosity. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 115 publications receiving 4080 citations. Previous affiliations of Toshihiro Ohura include Kagoshima University.

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Primary systemic carnitine deficiency is caused by mutations in a gene encoding sodium ion-dependent carnitine transporter

TL;DR: These mutations provide the first evidence that loss of OCTN2 function causes primary systemic carnitine deficiency, an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by progressive cardiomyopathy, skeletal myopathy, hypoglycaemia and hyperammonaemia.
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Effects of individual mutations in the P-450(C21) pseudogene on the P-450(C21) activity and their distribution in the patient genomes of congenital steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency.

TL;DR: A survey of the distribution of the various mutations in the patient genomes so far reported suggests that the heterogeneous clinical symptoms of this genetic disease are somehow related to the degree of attenuation of the activities of the mutated gene products.
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Genetic Epidemiology of the Carnitine Transporter OCTN2 Gene in a Japanese Population and Phenotypic Characterization in Japanese Pedigrees with Primary Systemic Carnitine Deficiency

TL;DR: An echocardiographic study of the families of patients with primary carnitine deficiency revealed that the heterozygotes for OCTN2 mutations were predisposed to late onset benign cardiac hypertrophy compared with the wild-types.