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Clinical, biochemical and molecular characterization of prosaposin deficiency.
Clinical genetics - 1 Sept 2016
Motta M, Tatti M, Furlan F, Celato A, Di Fruscio G, Polo G, Manara R, Nigro V, Tartaglia M, Burlina A, Salvioli R
Abstract excerpt
Prosaposin (PSAP) deficiency is an ultra-rare, fatal infantile lysosomal storage disorder (LSD) caused by variants in the PSAP gene, with seven subjects reported so far. Here, we provide the clinical, biochemical and molecular characterization of two additional PSAP deficiency cases. Lysoplex, a targeted resequencing approach was utilized to identify the variant in the first patient, while quantification of...
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