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Clinical and molecular aspects of Berardinelli-Seip Congenital Lipodystrophy (BSCL)
Karina Braga Gomes1, Victor Cavalcanti Pardini, Ana Paula Fernandes
1COLTEC, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. karina@coltec.ufmg.br
Abstract:
Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy (CGL) or Berardinelli-Seip Syndrome (BSCL) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by complete absence of adipose tissue and by several metabolic alterations in carbohydrate (diabetes mellitus) and lipid metabolism and involvement of heart, bone and ovaries. Mental retardation and psychiatric disturbances are present in a variable proportion of affected patients. In the present review, the major advances in clinical, molecular and genetic characterization of BSCL affected subjects are recorded and discussed.
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