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Enzymatic diagnosis of nonketotic hyperglycinemia with lymphoblasts
1Department of Biochemical Genetics, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendal, Japan.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
We developed a new enzymatic assay for the glycine cleavage system that used Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblasts instead of liver biopsy specimens. Patients with nonketotic hyperglycinemia from a deficiency of P-protein could be clearly distinguished from control subjects by activities in their lymphoblasts, suggesting the clinical usefulness of this method.