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Severe jaundice in a patient with a previously undescribed glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) mutation and Gilbert syndrome.
Blood cells, molecules & diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Beutler Ernest, Gelbart Terri, Miller William
Abstract excerpt
A patient with chronic hemolytic anemia and G6PD deficiency was noted to be severely jaundiced and to have a high serum ferritin level. Analysis of his DNA revealed only heterozygosity for the c.187 C-->G (H63D) mutation of HFE, but showed that he was homozygous for the UDP glucuronosyltransferase promoter mutation of Gilbert's disease and that he had a previously undescribed mutation of G6PD, c.832 T-->C...
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