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Mutations in the acid alpha-glucosidase gene (M. Pompe) in a patient with an unusual phenotype.
Neurology - 25 Jan 2005
Anneser J M H, Pongratz D E, Podskarbi T, Shin Y S, Schoser B G H
Abstract excerpt
Glycogenosis type II (Pompe disease) is a lysosomal storage disease caused by deficiency of acid alpha-glucosidase (acid maltase). The disease is autosomal recessive inherited and is clinically and genetically heterogenous. The authors describe a 30-year-old woman affected by late-onset Pompe disease with vascular affection resembling atherosclerotic angiopathy of the elderly. Genetic analysis revealed two novel...
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