Article
Increased prevalence of mutant null alleles that cause hereditary fructose intolerance in the American population.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Feb 2010
Coffee Erin M, Yerkes Laura, Ewen Elizabeth P, Zee Tiffany, Tolan Dean R
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the aldolase B gene (ALDOB) impairing enzyme activity toward fructose-1-phosphate cleavage cause hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI). Diagnosis of the disease is possible by identifying known mutant ALDOB alleles in suspected patients; however, the frequencies of mutant alleles can differ by population. Here, 153 American HFI patients with 268 independent alleles were analyzed to identify the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biopsy
- DNA
- DNA Primers
- Fructose Intolerance
- Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase
- Genotype
- Humans
- Liver
- Mutation
- Mutation, Missense
