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A retrospective study of 12,000 (6,000 male and 6,000 female) breastfed neonates in Greece found that carnitine and it various esters in the serum of 3-day-old infants was related to their birth weight
Acknowledgments The authors thank the Chettinad Academy of Research and Education (CARE), Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute (CHRI), Chennai, India, and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
The disease is caused by a mutation in the ATP7B gene, which codes for a protein that facilitates the incorporation of copper into proteins (such as ceruloplasmin) and also the transportation of copper into vesicles that allow it to be secreted in bile.1 The critical effect of a mutation in ATP7B is diminished copper secretion into bile, which leads to excess copper accumulation in the hepatocyte
First, the pilot sample size of current study may limit the statistical power and generalizability of the findings