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Myopathy and parkinsonism in phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency.
Muscle & nerve - 1 May 2010
Sotiriou Evangelia, Greene Paul, Krishna Sindu, Hirano Michio, DiMauro Salvatore
Abstract excerpt
A 25-year-old man with exertional myoglobinuria had no evidence of hemolytic anemia, but he had severe parkinsonism that was responsive to levodopa. Phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) activity was markedly decreased in muscle, and molecular analysis of the PGK1 gene identified the p.T378P mutation tha...
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