Orna Steinberg-Shemer, Joanne Yacobovich, Sharon Noy-Lotan, Orly Dgany, Tanya Krasnov, Assaf Barg, Yuval E Landau, Katya Kneller, Raz Somech, Oded Gilad, Dafna Brik Simon, Naama Orenstein, Shai Izraeli, Francisco Del Caño-Ochoa, Hannah Tamary, Santiago Ramón-Maiques
Biallelic pathogenic variants in CAD, that encode the multienzymatic protein required for de-novo pyrimidine biosynthesis, cause early infantile epileptic encephalopathy-50. This rare disease, characterized by developmental delay, intractable seizures and anaemia, is amenable to treatment with uridine. We present a patient with macrocytic anaemia, elevated haemoglobin-A2 levels, anisocytosis, poikilocytosis and target cells in the blood smear, and mild developmental delay. A next-generation sequencing panel revealed biallelic variants in CAD...
November 20, 2023: British Journal of Haematology