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Clinical heterogeneity and prognosis in combined methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria (cblC).
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Aug 1997
Rosenblatt D S, Aspler A L, Shevell M I, Pletcher B A, Fenton W A, Seashore M R
Abstract excerpt
The clbC form of methylmalonic acidaemia is a rare and poorly understood condition which results from impaired biosynthesis of methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin. The consequent functional deficiencies of methylmalonyl-CoA mutase and methionine synthase produce both methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria. Systemic symptoms and neurological decompensation comprise the clinical phenotype. In an effort to...
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