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Molecular genetic characterization of maple syrup urine disease in European families.
Biochemical medicine and metabolic biology - 1 Dec 1993
Peinemann F, Wendel U, Danner D J
Abstract excerpt
Maple syrup urine disease results from defects in the branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex. Cells from seven German, three Turkish, and two Italian families including five consanguineous matings were analyzed for the causative mutations. Enzyme assays were used to confirm the initial clinical diagnosis of all probands. Immunoblots of mitochondrial proteins from these probands revealed reduced...
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