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CblE type of homocystinuria: mild clinical phenotype in two patients homozygous for a novel mutation in the MTRR gene.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2003
Vilaseca M A, Vilarinho L, Zavadakova P, Vela E, Cleto E, Pineda M, Coimbra E, Suormala T, Fowler B, Kozich V
Abstract excerpt
Patients with the cblE type of homocystinuria usually present with megaloblastic anaemia, feeding difficulties, developmental delay and cerebral atrophy. We present a 14-year-old Spanish girl (patient 1) and a 10-year-old Portuguese boy (patient 2) with cblE disease and mild clinical phenotype. The main clinical feature in both patients was persistent megaloblastic anaemia observed at 3 years and at 2 months of...
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