High risk of medium chain acyl-coenzyme a dehydrognase deficiency among gypsies

Pediatric Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-84

  Martinez, Gemma ^a   Garcia Lozano, J Raul ^b   Ribes, Antonia ^a   Maldonado, Maria D ^c   Baldellou, Antonio ^d   De Pablo, Rosario ^e   Nuñez Roldan, Antonio ^b  

^a Institut de Bioquimica Clinica Barcelona   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIUM CHAIN ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIPSY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

EID: 0031843312     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199807000-00013     Document Type: Article

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