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Leaky splicing mutation in the acid maltase gene is associated with delayed onset of glycogenosis type II.

An autosomal recessive deficiency of acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA), type II glycogenosis, is genetically and clinically heterogeneous. The discovery of an enzyme-inactivating genomic deletion of exon 18 in three unrelated genetic compound patients--two infants and an adult--provided a rare opportunity to analyze the effect of the second mutation in patients who displayed dramatically different phenotypes. A deletion of Lys-903 in one patient and a substitution of Arg for Leu-299 in another resulted in the fatal infantile form. In the adult, a T-to-G base change at position -13 of intron 1 resulted in alternatively spliced transcripts with deletion of exon 2, the location of the start codon. The low level of active enzyme (12% of normal) generated from the leakage of normally spliced mRNA sustained the patient to adult life.[1]

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  1. Leaky splicing mutation in the acid maltase gene is associated with delayed onset of glycogenosis type II. Boerkoel, C.F., Exelbert, R., Nicastri, C., Nichols, R.C., Miller, F.W., Plotz, P.H., Raben, N. Am. J. Hum. Genet. (1995) [Pubmed]
 
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