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Screening patients referred to a metabolic clinic for lysosomal storage disorders.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jun 2011
Fuller Maria, Tucker Justin N, Lang Debbie L, Dean Caroline J, Fietz Michael J, Meikle Peter J, Hopwood John J
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BACKGROUND: Lysosomal protein profiling is being developed as a high throughput method to screen populations for lysosomal storage disorders (LSD). DESIGN: 1415 blood spots from patients referred to a metabolic clinic for LSD were screened using a single multiplex assay for 14 proteins in a dried blood spot. RESULTS: All patients with Pompe disease, metachromatic leukodystrophy, and mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS)...
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