Kamal Hassan, Amal Robay, Aljazi Al-Maraghi, Nuha Nimeri, Asmaa Azzam, Alya Al Shakaki, Eman Hamid, Ronald Crystal, Khalid Fakhro
Microvillus inclusion disease (MVID, MIM♯ 251850), also known as congenital microvil-lus atrophy, was first described by Davidson et al. in 1978. It is a rare au-tosomal recessive disease that presents with an intractable life-threatening watery diarrhea either within the first days of life (early-onset form) or at several months of life (late-onset form) . The hallmarks of MVID are a lack of microvilli on the surface of villous enterocytes, occurrence of microvillous inclusions and the cytoplasmic accumulation of periodic acid-schiff-positive vesicles...
November 23, 2021: Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies