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A lethal neonatal phenotype of mitochondrial short-chain enoyl-CoA hydratase-1 deficiency.
Clinical genetics - 1 Apr 2017
Al Mutairi F, Shamseldin H E, Alfadhel M, Rodenburg R J, Alkuraya F S
Abstract excerpt
Short-chain enoyl-CoA hydratase (SCEH) is a mitochondrial enzyme involved in the oxidation of fatty acids and the catabolic pathway of valine and, to a lesser extent, isoleucine. Deficiency of this enzyme was recently shown to cause an early childhood Leigh syndrome phenotype. The few reported patients were compound heterozygotes for two missense or missense with truncating variants in ECHS1 that encodes SCEH. We...
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