Fialkow PJ, Lisker R, Detter J, Giblett ER, Zavala C. 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase: hemizygous manifestation in a patient with leukemia.
Science 1969;
163:194-5. [PMID:
5249272 DOI:
10.1126/science.163.3863.194]
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Abstract
In a study of 41 patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia, two were found to have the 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase heterozygous phenotype A-B, and two had the phenotype characteristic of Pd(B) homozygosity. Since one of the two with Pd(B) homozygosity was the mother of two children with the A phenotype, it was presumed that she carried a Pd(A) gene not expressed in her blood cells. his was confirmed by electrophoretic analysis of her fibroblasts, which had the A-B phenotypic pattern. Gene deletion is considered to be the most likely explanation.
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