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A dual hereditary red blood cell defect in one family: Hypocatalasemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
Summary
A family of Iranian-Jewish origin with two hereditary enzymatic defects in the red blood cells, catalase deficiency and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, is described. The two enzymatic defects were inherited independently of each other. The findings are compatible with a transmission of the catalase deficiency by an autosomal gene of incomplete dominance, the homozygous state resulting in severe catalase deficiency and the heterozygous state in intermediate catalase deficiency.
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- Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1963 , pp. 247 - 255
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- Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1963
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