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Identification of a small deletion in one allele of patients with infantile form of glycogen storage disease type II.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 15 Feb 1996
Shieh J J, Lin C Y
Abstract excerpt
Glycogen storage disease type II (GSD II, Pompe's disease) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease caused by the deficiency of acid alpha-D-glucosidase. In this paper we report two unrelated Chinese patients with infantile form of GSD II who had compound heterozygotes containing a small deletion in one of the acid alpha-D-glucosidase alleles. In both of these compound heterozygotes, one allele contains the...
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