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The Dutch Fabry cohort: diversity of clinical manifestations and Gb3 levels.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Feb 2007
Vedder A C, Linthorst G E, van Breemen M J, Groener J E M, Bemelman F J, Strijland A, Mannens M M A M, Aerts J M F G, Hollak C E M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Fabry disease (OMIM 301500) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder with characteristic vascular, renal, cardiac and cerebral complications. Globotriaosylceramide (Gb(3)) accumulates in Fabry patients as a result of alpha-galactosidase A deficiency. The phenotypic variability is high, but the relationship between clinical symptoms in individual Fabry patients has not been uniformly documented. Also,...
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