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Novel mutations in African American patients with glycogen storage disease Type II. Mutations in brief no. 209. Online.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 1999
Raben N, Lee E, Lee L, Hirschhorn R, Plotz P H
Abstract excerpt
The infantile form of GSD II (an inherited deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme, acid alpha-glucosidase, Pompe disease) is a severe and invariably fatal disease characterized by a rapidly progressive generalized hypotonia, hepatomegaly, and cardiomegaly. We have recently demonstrated that African American patients share a common nonsense R854X mutation in exon 18 (Becker et al., 1998). Two other mutations, D645E...
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