About 90-95 per cent of the patients have a severe clinical course leading to death in early childhood. ATP7A mutations associated with MD show great variety, from cytogenetic abnormalities to partial gene deletions to single base-pair changes. As a lethal X-linked trait, an estimated one-third of n
Prenatal and postnatal diagnosis of menkes disease, an inherited disorder of copper metabolism
✍ Scribed by T. Tønnesen; N. Horn
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 520 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0141-8955
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