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Congenital Hyperinsulinism

What are the causes?

A number of gene mutations are now known to be involved in CH. However, in about sixty per cent of patients the genetic basis of the disease is not known.

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Medical text written December 2005 by Contact a Family. Approved December 2005 by Dr K Hussain, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

 

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