PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Strautnieks, S AU - Rutland, P AU - Malcolm, S TI - Arginine 109 to glutamine mutation in a girl with ornithine carbamoyl transferase deficiency. AID - 10.1136/jmg.28.12.871 DP - 1991 Dec 01 TA - Journal of Medical Genetics PG - 871--874 VI - 28 IP - 12 4099 - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/28/12/871.short 4100 - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/28/12/871.full SO - J Med Genet1991 Dec 01; 28 AB - We studied DNA from 29 families with at least one member with ornithine carbamoyl transferase (OCT) deficiency and have found a mutation in the TaqI site within exon 5 of the OCT gene in a female presenting at the age of 21 months. Hybridisation with site specific oligonucleotides shows that the mutation is a C to T substitution resulting in a glutamine for arginine substitution at amino acid 109.