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Complete molecular characterisation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a group of Malaysian Chinese neonates.
The Malaysian journal of pathology - 1 Dec 2004
Ainoon Othman, Boo Nem Yun, Yu Yuang Hong, Cheong Soon Keng, Hamidah Hussin Noor, Lim Jee Hiang
Abstract excerpt
We performed DNA analysis on cord blood samples of 128 Chinese male neonates diagnosed as G6PD deficiency in Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia by a combination PCR-restriction enzyme digest technique, Single Stranded Conformation Polymorphism analysis and DNA sequencing. We found 10 different G6PD-deficient mutations exist. The two commonest alleles were G6PD Canton 1376 G>T (42.3%) and Kaiping 1388 G>A...
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