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Neuromuscular forms of glycogen branching enzyme deficiency.
Acta myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology - 1 Jul 2007
Bruno C, Cassandrini D, Assereto S, Akman H Orhan, Minetti C, Di Mauro S
Abstract excerpt
Deficiency of glycogen branching enzyme is causative of Glycogen Storage Disease type IV (GSD-IV), a rare autosomal recessive disorder of the glycogen synthesis, characterized by the accumulation of amylopectin-like polysaccharide, also known as polyglucosan, in almost all tissues. Its clinical presentation is variable and involves the liver or the neuromuscular system and different mutations in the GBE1 gene,...
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