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CblE type of homocystinuria due to methionine synthase reductase deficiency: clinical and molecular studies and prenatal diagnosis in two families.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Oct 2002
Zavadakova P, Fowler B, Zeman J, Suormala T, Pristoupilová K, Kozich V, Zavad'áková P
Abstract excerpt
The cblE type of homocystinuria is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, which manifests with megaloblastic anaemia and developmental delay in early childhood. This disease is caused by a defect in reductive activation of methionine synthase (MTR). Our study was directed at clinical, biochemical, enzymatic and molecular characterization of two Czech patients with the cblE type of homocystinuria. Case 1 involves a...
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