Biochemical and mutational analyses of HEXA in a cohort of Egyptian patients with infantile Tay-Sachs disease. Expansion of the mutation spectrum

Abstract Background Tay-Sachs disease (TSD), an autosomal recessively inherited neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disease, reported worldwide with a high incidence among population of Eastern European and Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Mutations in the alpha subunit of HEXA that encodes for the β-hexos...

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Main Authors: Doaa M. A. Ibrahim, Ola S. M. Ali, Hala Nasr, Ekram Fateen, Alice AbdelAleem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-03-01
Series:Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-023-02637-1