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Evaluation of cardiac phenotype in horses with type 1 polysaccharide storage myopathy.
Journal of veterinary internal medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Naylor R J, Luis-Fuentes V, Livesey L, Mobley C B, Henke N, Brock K, Fernandez-Fuente M, Piercy R J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Type 1 polysaccharide storage myopathy (PSSM1), an equine glycogen storage disorder caused by a gain of function mutation (R309H) in the gene encoding glycogen synthase (GYS1), is associated with the accumulation of amylase-resistant alpha-crystalline polysaccharide inclusions within skeletal muscle. Several glycogenoses in humans have a cardiac phenotype, and reports exist of horses with PSSM and...
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