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Fanconi-Bickel syndrome: report of life history and successful pregnancy in an affected patient.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Feb 2011
Pena Loren, Charrow Joel
Abstract excerpt
Fanconi–Bickel syndrome (FBS, OMIM #227810) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of carbohydrate transport originally described in 1949 [Fanconi and Bickel(1949);Helv Paediatr Acta 4: 359–396]. FBS is caused by mutations in the glucose and galactose transporter gene SLC2A2 (HGNC ID11006) [Santeret al.(1997); Nat Genet 17: 324–326] and is characterized by hepatic glycogen accumulation with hepatomegaly, fasting...
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