Article
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 pre...
Topics
- 3-Methyl-2-Oxobutanoate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide)
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific
- Humans
- Ketone Oxidoreductases
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multienzyme Complexes
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
