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GBE1-related disorders: Adult polyglucosan body disease and its neuromuscular phenotypes.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 May 2021
Souza Paulo Victor Sgobbi, Badia Bruno Mattos Lombardi, Farias Igor Braga, Pinto Wladimir Bocca Vieira de Rezende, Oliveira Acary Souza Bulle, Akman Hasan Orhan, DiMauro Salvatore
Abstract excerpt
Adult polyglucosan body disease (APBD) represents a complex autosomal recessive inherited neurometabolic disorder due to homozygous or compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in GBE1 gene, resulting in deficiency of glycogen-branching enzyme and secondary storage of glycogen in the form of polyglucosan bodies, involving the skeletal muscle, diaphragm, peripheral nerve (including autonomic fibers), brain white...
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