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Low frequency of Fabry disease in patients with common heart disease.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Jul 2018
Schiffmann Raphael, Swift Caren, McNeill Nathan, Benjamin Elfrida R, Castelli Jeffrey P, Barth Jay, Sweetman Lawrence, Wang Xuan, Wu Xiaoyang
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To test the hypothesis that undiagnosed patients with Fabry disease exist among patients affected by common heart disease. METHODS: Globotriaosylceramide in random whole urine using tandem mass spectroscopy, α-galactosidase A activity in dried blood spots, and next-generation sequencing of pooled or individual genomic DNA samples supplemented by Sanger sequencing. RESULTS: We tested 2,256 consecutive...
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