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Late juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) in three patients with a similar clinical course and identical mutation on one allele.
Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 1996
Tylki-Szymanska A, Berger J, Löschl B, Lugowska A, Molzer B
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Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an autosomal, recessively inherited, lysosomal storage disease caused by arylsulfatase A (ASA) activity deficit. Arylsulfatase A initiates the degradation of sulfatide (cerebroside sulfate), which is an essential component of myelin. The main clinical symptom...
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