Maria Carolina Costa Melo Svidnicki, Andrey Santos, Jhonathan Angel Araujo Fernandez, Ana Paula Hitomi Yokoyama, Isis Quezado Magalhães, Vitoria Regia Pereira Pinheiro, Silvia Regina Brandalise, Paulo Augusto Achucarro Silveira, Fernando Ferreira Costa, Sara Teresinha Olalla Saad
BACKGROUND: Pyruvate kinase deficiency is a hereditary disease that affects the glycolytic pathway of the red blood cell, causing nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. The disease is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait and shows a marked variability in clinical expression. This study reports on the molecular characterization of ten Brazilian pyruvate kinase-deficient patients and the genotype-phenotype correlations. METHOD: Sanger sequencing and in silico analysis were carried out to identify and characterize the genetic mutations...
January 2018: Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia