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Prenatal detection of free sialic acid storage disease: genetic and biochemical studies in nine families.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 May 2001
Salomäki P, Aula N, Juvonen V, Renlund M, Aula P
Abstract excerpt
Sialic acid storage disorders, Salla disease (SD) and a severe infantile form of disease (ISSD), are recessively inherited allelic lysosomal storage disorders due to impaired egress of free sialic acid from lysosomes. Fourteen pregnancies at risk of adult-type free sialic acid storage disease, SD, were monitored by sialic acid assays, genetic linkage or mutation detection analyses using chorionic villus samples....
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