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Description of the mutations in 15 subjects with variant forms of maple syrup urine disease.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Nov 2007
Flaschker N, Feyen O, Fend S, Simon E, Schadewaldt P, Wendel U
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), disease-causing mutations can affect the BCKDHA, BCKDHB or DBT genes encoding for the E1 alpha, E1 beta and E2 subunits of the multienzyme branched-chain 2-keto acid dehydrogenase (BCKD) complex. AIM: The aim of this study was to screen DNA samples of 15 subjects with distinct well-characterized variant MSUD phenotypes for mutations in the three genes in order to...
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