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Siblings with severe pyruvate kinase deficiency and a complex genotype.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Sept 2016
Christensen Robert D, Yaish Hassan M, Nussenzveig Roberto H, Agarwal Archana M
Abstract excerpt
Siblings presented as neonates with severe jaundice and transfusion-dependent hemolytic anemia. Next-generation sequencing revealed both to have three heterozygous mutations in the gene encoding erythrocyte pyruvate kinase (PKLR), plus a heterozygous splice mutation in the beta-spectrin gene (SPTB). In addition, both have a different 5th mutation in a gene encoding other erythrocyte membrane proteins. The...
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