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Prenatal diagnosis for arginase deficiency by second-trimester fetal erythrocyte arginase assay and first-trimester ARG1 mutation analysis.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Nov 2004
Korman Stanley H, Gutman Alisa, Stemmer Edia, Kay Barrie S, Ben-Neriah Ziva, Zeigler Marsha
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Hyperargininemia is a progressive neurometabolic disorder caused by deficiency of hepatic cytosolic arginase I, resulting from mutations in the ARG1 gene. We diagnosed arginase deficiency in a three-year-old male child of first-cousin Palestinian Arab parents. Prenatal diagnosis of an unaffected...
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