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Gene analysis of Mennonite maple syrup urine disease kindred using primer-specified restriction map modification.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 1992
Mitsubuchi H, Matsuda I, Nobukuni Y, Heidenreich R, Indo Y, Endo F, Mallee J, Segal S
Abstract excerpt
Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease due to a deficiency of any of the subunits, E1 alpha, E1 beta or E2, of the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex (BCKDH). A large Mennonite kindred of MSUD has been studied in Pennsylvania, USA. In the present investigation, genomes from 70 members, including 12 patients belonging to eight different Mennonite MSUD...
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