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High residual arylsulfatase A (ARSA) activity in a patient with late-infantile metachromatic leukodystrophy.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 1993
Kreysing J, Bohne W, Bösenberg C, Marchesini S, Turpin J C, Baumann N, von Figura K, Gieselmann V
Abstract excerpt
We identified a patient suffering from late-infantile metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) who has a residual arylsulfatase A (ARSA) activity of about 10%. Fibroblasts of the patient show significant sulfatide degradation activity exceeding that of adult MLD patients. Analysis of the ARSA gene in this patient revealed heterozygosity for two new mutant alleles: in one allele, deletion of C 447 in exon 2 leads to a...
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