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Recessive congenital methaemoglobinaemia: cytochrome b(5) reductase deficiency.
British journal of haematology - 1 May 2008
Percy Melanie J, Lappin Terry R
Abstract excerpt
Some 60 years ago, Quentin Gibson reported the first hereditary disorder involving an enzyme when he deduced that familial methaemoglobinaemia was caused by an enzymatic lesion associated with the glycolysis pathway in red blood cells. This disorder, now known as recessive congenital methaemoglobinaemia (RCM), is caused by NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase (cb(5)r) deficiency. Two distinct clinical forms, types I and...
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