Desmosterolosis

Desmosterolosis in medicine and biology is a defect in cholesterol biosynthesis.^[2] It results in an accumulation of desmosterol and a variety of associated symptoms.^[3] Only two cases have been reported as of 2007.^[4] The condition is due to inactivating mutations in 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase.^[5] Certain anticholesterolemic and antiestrogenic drugs such as triparanol, ethamoxytriphetol, and clomifene have been found to inhibit conversion of desmosterol into cholesterol and to induce desmosterolosis, for instance cataracts.^[6]

Desmosterolosis
Other names	Deficiency of 3beta-hydroxysterol delta24-reductase[1]
Desmosterol

References

1. Reference, Genetics Home. "Desmosterolosis". Genetics Home Reference. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
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3. FitzPatrick DR, Keeling JW, Evans MJ, et al. (January 1998). "Clinical phenotype of desmosterolosis". Am. J. Med. Genet. 75 (2): 145–52. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19980113)75:2<145::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-S. PMID 9450875.
4. American Society for Clinical Investigation (31 October 2007). Science In Medicine: The JCI Textbook Of Molecular Medicine. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 584–. ISBN 978-0-7637-5083-1.
5. Waterham HR, Koster J, Romeijn GJ, et al. (October 2001). "Mutations in the 3beta-hydroxysterol Delta24-reductase gene cause desmosterolosis, an autosomal recessive disorder of cholesterol biosynthesis". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 69 (4): 685–94. doi:10.1086/323473. PMC 1226055. PMID 11519011.
6. Philipp Y. Maximov; Russell E. McDaniel; V. Craig Jordan (23 July 2013). Tamoxifen: Pioneering Medicine in Breast Cancer. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-3-0348-0664-0.

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