Estimating the prevalence of pyruvate kinase deficiency from the gene frequency in the general white population.

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Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is the most common cause of hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. The prevalence of this deficiency is unknown, though some estimates have been made based on the frequency of low red cell PK activity in the population. An additional 20 patients with hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia caused by PK deficiency have been genotyped. One previously unreported mutation...

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