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Severe phenotypic spectrum of mevalonate kinase deficiency with minimal mevalonic aciduria.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Dec 2012
Prasad Chitra, Salvadori Marina I, Rupar C A
Abstract excerpt
Mevalonate kinase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessively inherited organic aciduria with a complex multi-systemic phenotype. We describe two deceased patients with clinically severe mevalonate kinase (MK) deficiency confirmed by MK mutation analysis. The phenotype in our patients ranged from neonatal hydrops in the first patient to severe failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, recurrent febrile episodes and...
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