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Mucolipidosis III type C: first-trimester biochemical and molecular prenatal diagnosis.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Mar 2003
Falik-Zaccai T C, Zeigler M, Bargal R, Bach G, Borochowitz Z, Raas-Rothschild A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Mucolipidosis IIIC (MLIIIC) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease resulting from defective mannose 6-phosphate-dependent lysosomal enzyme trafficking; mutations of the gamma subunit of N-acetylglucosamine-1 phosphotransferase (GINAcPT) were recently found to cause its pathogenesis. We report here for the first time prenatal diagnosis (PND) for MLIIIC by means of chorionic villous...
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