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B3GALT6-linkeropathy: Three illustrative patients spanning the disease spectrum.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Oct 2023
Coetzer Kimberly Christine, Dieckerhoff Jost, Wollnik Bernd, Moosa Shahida
Abstract excerpt
The linkeropathies are a group of rare disorders, characterized by overlapping clinical features involving the skeletal and connective tissues. Each "linker" gene encodes an enzyme responsible for the addition of glycosaminoglycan chains to proteoglycans via a common tertrasaccharine linker region. The original descriptions of the autosomal recessive B3GALT6-related disorder showed that the associated clinical...
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