Article
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in northern Mexico and description of a novel mutation.
Journal of genetics - 1 Aug 2014
García-Magallanes N, Luque-Ortega F, Aguilar-Medina E M, Ramos-Payán R, Galaviz-Hernández C, Romero-Quintana J G, Del Pozo-Yauner L, Rangel-Villalobos H, Arámbula-Meraz E
Abstract excerpt
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD) is the most common enzyme pathology in humans; it is X-linked inherited and causes neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia, chronic nonspherocytic haemolytic anaemia and drug-induced acute haemolytic anaemia. G6PD deficiency has scarcely been studied in the northern region of Mexico, which is important because of the genetic heterogeneity described in Mexican population....
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