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Glycogen storage disease type II in Israel.
Israel journal of medical sciences - 1 Jan 2000
Bashan N, Potashnik R, Barash V, Gutman A, Moses S W
Abstract excerpt
Eighteen patients with alpha-glucosidase deficiency have been diagnosed in Israel during the last 15 years. All patients were Palestinian Arabs, with the exception of two siblings from a Jewish Iraqi family. Clinically all patients had the infantile type (Pompe's disease), except one who had the juvenile type. Muscle glycogen content varied from 4 to 17% wet weight. Muscle alpha-glucosidase activity was zero in...
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