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Genetic defects in patients with glycogenosis type II (acid maltase deficiency).
Muscle & nerve. Supplement - 1 Jan 1995
Raben N, Nichols R C, Boerkoel C, Plotz P
Abstract excerpt
Inherited deficiency of acid alpha-glucosidase (acid maltase, GAA) leads to glycogen storage disease type II. Clinical manifestations and prognosis of the disease depend on the age of onset and tissue involvement. GAA deficiency is extremely heterogeneous, ranging from a rapidly progressive fatal infantile-onset form to a slowly progressive adult-onset myopathy associated with respiratory insufficiency....
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