Fifteen novel mutations in PKLR associat
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Richard van Wijk; Eric G. Huizinga; Annet C.W. van Wesel; Brigitte A. van Oirsch
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is a rare disease but an important cause of hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. The disease is caused by mutations in the PKLR gene and shows a marked variability in clinical expression. We report on the molecular characterization of 38 PK-deficient patients f