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Barth syndrome: an X-linked cardiomyopathy with a novel mutation.
Indian journal of pediatrics - 1 Dec 2010
Aljishi Emtethal, Ali Fouad
Abstract excerpt
The authors report a 6 yr old boy with Barth syndrome who presented with cardiomyopathy, neutropenia and hypotonia. Urine gas chromatography showed high level of 3-methylglutaconic acid. The DNA of both the patient and the mother showed a heterozygous 3 bp deletion in exon 8 of the tafazzin gene. This abnormality involves the deletion of the bases TGA starting at cDNA nucleotide 891 (c891_893delTGA), resulting in...
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