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Both mutations in G6PD A- are necessary to produce the G6PD deficient phenotype.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Jun 1992
Town M, Bautista J M, Mason P J, Luzzatto L
Abstract excerpt
The high prevalence of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in African populations is due almost entirely to the enzyme variant A-, which differs from the wild-type G6PD B by two amino acid replacements, 68 Val-->Met and 126 Asn-->Asp. The non-deficient polymorphic variant G6PD A contains only the mutation 126 Asn-->Asp. The frequencies of the G6PD A and of the G6PD A- genes in parts of Africa are...
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