Article
Glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency in Spain: evidence of two groups of patients, genetically, and biochemically distinct.
Pediatric research - 1 Sept 2000
Busquets C, Merinero B, Christensen E, Gelpí J L, Campistol J, Pineda M, Fernández-Alvarez E, Prats J M, Sans A, Arteaga R, Martí M, Campos J, Martínez-Pardo M, Martínez-Bermejo A, Ruiz-Falcó M L, Vaquerizo J, Orozco M, Ugarte M, Coll M J, Ribes A
Abstract excerpt
Glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase (GCDH) deficiency causes glutaric aciduria type I (GA I), an inborn error of metabolism that is characterized clinically by dystonia and dyskinesia and pathologically by neural degeneration of the caudate and putamen. Studies of metabolite excretion allowed us to categorize 43 GA I Spanish patients into two groups: group 1 (26 patients), those presenting with high excretion of both...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Glutarates
- Glutaryl-CoA Dehydrogenase
- Humans
- Male
- Metabolic Diseases
- Molecular Sequence Data
