Clinical, histological and molecular characteristics of Mexican patients with Fabry disease and significant renal involvement.

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Fabry's disease (FD) is an X-linked lysosomal disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme α-galactosidase A that produces accumulation of glycosphingolipids with clinical abnormalities of skin, eye, kidney, heart, brain, and peripheral nervous system. We undertook this study to describe the molecular characteristics of the first four Mexican patients with diagnosis of FD with significant...

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