Pyruvate kinase deficiency: the genotype-phenotype association.

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Red cell pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is the most frequent enzyme abnormality of glycolysis causing chronic non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia. The disease is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait, clinical symptoms usually occurring in compound heterozygotes for two mutant alleles and in homozygotes. The severity of haemolysis is highly variable, ranging from very mild or fully compensated forms to...

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