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. 1991 Dec;11(4):1152-4.
doi: 10.1016/0888-7543(91)90044-f.

Assignment of the human ferrochelatase gene (FECH) and a locus for protoporphyria to chromosome 18q22

D M Whitcombe  1 , N P Carter, D G Albertson, S J Smith, D A Rhodes, T M Cox
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Assignment of the human ferrochelatase gene (FECH) and a locus for protoporphyria to chromosome 18q22

D M Whitcombe et al. Genomics. 1991 Dec.

Abstract

We have mapped the human gene for ferrochelatase (FECH; ferroheme-protolyase, EC 4.99.1.1) to chromosome 18 by hybridization of cDNA to sorted chromosomes. The probe was obtained by PCR-directed amplification of a human marrow cDNA library in lambda gt 10. Subchromosomal localization of ferrochelatase to 18q22 was determined by chromosomal hybridization in situ using a human ferrochelatase genomic clone in lambda EMBL 3 that contained a 20-kb insert. Since ferrochelatase activity is deficient in patients with the inherited disease erythropoietic protoporphyria, a locus for this disease may be assigned to 18q22, one of few monogenic defects that have been mapped to this chromosome.

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