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[Clinical and molecular genetic study on two patients of the juvenile form of Pompe disease in China].
Zhonghua er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of pediatrics - 1 Oct 2007
Qiu Jia-Jing, Wei Min, Zhang Wei-Min, Shi Hui-Ping
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Glycogen-storage disease type II (GSD II, Pompe's disease) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by a functional deficiency of acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) that leads to glycogen accumulation within lysosomes in most tissues. The GAA gene is located to human chromosome 17q25 and contains 20 exons, 19 of which are coding. Clinically, patients with the severe infantile form of GSD II have muscle...
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