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Fanconi-Bickel Syndrome: A Review of the Mechanisms That Lead to Dysglycaemia.
International journal of molecular sciences - 31 Aug 2020
Sharari Sanaa, Abou-Alloul Mohamad, Hussain Khalid, Ahmad Khan Faiyaz
Abstract excerpt
Accumulation of glycogen in the kidney and liver is the main feature of Fanconi-Bickel Syndrome (FBS), a rare disorder of carbohydrate metabolism inherited in an autosomal recessive manner due to SLC2A2 gene mutations. Missense, nonsense, frame-shift (fs), in-frame indels, splice site, and compound heterozygous variants have all been identified in SLC2A2 gene of FBS cases. Approximately 144 FBS cases with 70...
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