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Marfanoid features in a child with combined methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria (CblC type).
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Oct 2007
Heil Sandra G, Hogeveen Marije, Kluijtmans Leo A J, van Dijken P J, van de Berg Gerard B, Blom Henk J, Morava Eva
Abstract excerpt
Cobalamin is an essential cofactor for two mammalian enzymes: methionine synthase and methylmalonyl-CoA mutase. Patients with the cobalamin C (CblC) defect have combined methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria. Recently, the gene responsible for the CblC type, MMACHC, was identified, which enables molecular diagnostics. In this study, we describe two siblings, a 16-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother, of...
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