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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency: correlation between the genotype, biochemistry and phenotype.
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore - 1 Dec 2008
Chan Daisy K L
Abstract excerpt
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is a common genetic enzyme defect present in many people from African, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Asian countries. Individuals with the enzyme deficiency may remain asymptomatic, develop an acute haemolytic crises to infections or Fava beans, neonatal jaundice or chronic non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia. Electrophoretic mobility may be fast, slow or...
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