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Natural course of glutamine synthetase deficiency in a 3 year old patient.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 May 2011
Häberle Johannes, Shahbeck Noora, Ibrahim Khalid, Hoffmann Georg F, Ben-Omran Tawfeg
Abstract excerpt
Glutamine deficiency with hyperammonemia due to an inherited defect of glutamine synthetase (GS) was found in a 2 year old patient. He presented neonatal seizures and developed chronic encephalopathy. Thus, GS deficiency leads to severe neurological disease but is not always early lethal.
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