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Pseudodeficiency of arylsulphatase A: strategy for clarification of genotype in families of subjects with low ASA activity and neurological symptoms.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 1995
Leistner S, Young E, Meaney C, Winchester B
Abstract excerpt
A benign deficiency (pseudodeficiency) of the lysosomal enzyme arylsulphatase A (ASA) (EC 3.1.6.8) towards synthetic substrates complicates the diagnosis of metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). The pseudodeficiency is due to a single base substitution in the 3'-untranslated region of the ASA gene (1524+95 A-->G) and it has been reported that this mutation (PD2) always occurs on a chromosome carrying a second...
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