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-glucosidase gene
From the Department of Chemical Pathology (Dr. Lam and S.F. Tong), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong; Departments of Pathology (Drs. Yuen, Lee, and Chan, C. Lai and T. Chow) and Pediatrics (Dr. Chan), Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong, China; and Department of Medicine (Dr. Martiniuk), Pulmonary Division, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Ching-Wan Lam, Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China; e-mail: ching-wanlam{at}cuhk.edu.hk
The authors describe two novel mutations of the acid alpha-glucosidase gene, P361L and R437C, which define the juvenile-onset glycogen storage disease type II (GSDII) in a 16-year-old Chinese patient. The asymptomatic 13-year-old brother of the proband is also a compound heterozygote of the two mutations. These results confirm that intrafamilial phenotypic variation of juvenile-onset GSDII is ethnically diverse and suggest the contribution of other genes to the phenotypic variability of GSDII.
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