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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-29
pubmed:abstractText
Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is the most frequent red cell enzymatic defect responsible for hereditary non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia. The clinical picture is quite variable and the reasons of this variability have been only partially clarified. We report the clinical description and the extended molecular analysis in 3 PK deficient patients with clinical phenotype of variable severity. We studied the clinical and hematological aspects of 3 patients and analyzed the following genes: pyruvate kinase-R, glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase, ?-globin, uridindiphosphoglucuronil transferase and HFE. One patient (A) with a severe clinical picture resulted homozygote for exon 8 nt994A substitution, the other 2 (brothers) were compound heterozygotes for exon 8 nt994A and exon 11 nt1456T mutation. One of the two brothers with a more severe phenotype coinherited also had G6PD deficiency, while both had microcytosis due to the homozygosity for the non-deletional form of ?-thalassemia ATG?ACG substitution at the initiation codon of the alpha2 globin gene. Our results suggest that extended molecular analysis is useful for studying how several interacting gene mutations contribute to the clinical variability of pyruvate kinase deficiency.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1096-0961
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
280-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-5-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Red cell pyruvate kinase deficiency in Southern Sardinia.
pubmed:affiliation
Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia CNR, Cagliari, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't