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Manifesting heterozygotes in McArdle's disease: clinical, morphological and biochemical studies in a family.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 Mar 1993
Manfredi G, Silvestri G, Servidei S, Ricci E, Mirabella M, Bertini E, Papacci M, Rana M, Tonali P
Abstract excerpt
We report a family with McArdle's disease with several affected individuals in two generations. This unusual pedigree for an autosomal recessive disease is explained by the existence of manifesting heterozygotes in the maternal line. The presence of symptoms in heterozygotes seems to be due to a decrease in myophosphorylase activity below a critical threshold, ranging between 30% and 45% of normal mean value. The...
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