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Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase deficiency.
Bailliere's best practice & research. Clinical haematology - 1 Mar 2000
Kugler W, Lakomek M
Abstract excerpt
Most of the metabolic needs of erythrocytes are covered by glycolysis, the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway and the glutathione cycle. Hereditary enzyme deficiencies of all these pathways have been identified, among which glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI) deficiency is the second most frequent erythroenzymopathy in glycolysis, being associated with non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia of variable severity....
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