C4PMM2-CDG

Kishore Garapati1,2,3, Rohit Budhraja1, Mayank Saraswat1

  • 1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

JCI insight
|April 8, 2024
PubMed
概括

一种新型的糖生物标志物,补充C4衍生Man5GlcNAc2,显示出比碳水化合物缺乏转移素 (CDT) 测试更大的灵敏度,用于诊断PMM2-先天性糖化失调 (CDG). 这一发现为PMM2-CDG和其他CDG提供了更好的诊断准确性.

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