Kleijer WJ, Hu P, Thoomes R, Boer M, Huijmans JG, Blom W, Van Diggelen OP, Seemanova E, Macek M. Beta-mannosidase deficiency: heterogeneous manifestation in the first female patient and her brother.
J Inherit Metab Dis 1990;
13:867-72. [PMID:
2079835 DOI:
10.1007/bf01800211]
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Abstract
beta-Mannosidase deficiency was demonstrated in fibroblasts of a girl who showed severe psychomotor retardation, bone deformities and gargoylism and recurrent skin and respiratory infections and who died at 20 years of age from bronchopneumonia. This first demonstration of a female patient confirms the autosomal recessive inheritance of beta-mannosidosis. Further investigation of this gypsy family revealed beta-mannosidosis in an older brother with a milder manifestation of gargoyl facial dysmorphology, mental retardation, hearing impairment and recurrent infections. beta-Mannosidase activity was completely deficient in his cultured skin fibroblasts, leukocytes and plasma. In urine a characteristic disaccharide was present. Heterozygote levels of beta-mannosidase were found in fibroblasts and/or plasma of the parents and one sister.
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