The Finding That Fibroblasts from a Patient with X-Linked Hurler

question 7

Multiple Choice

The finding that fibroblasts from a patient with X-linked Hurler syndrome could correct the defect in fibroblasts from a patient with autosomal recessive Hurler syndrome (and vice versa) demonstrated what about the two disorders?

• A) There is a mild phenotype in either case
• B) One form of Hurler is more severe than the other
• C) Different proteins were deficient in the two disorders
• D) The same protein was deficient in the two disorders
• E) One was caused by a missense mutation and the other by a nonsense mutation

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