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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Spain

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Qui de fetge va que no passi pel favar! Who suffers from the liver should not pass through a fava field!

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Examination of 2520 male subjects in Spain by the Dye Reduction Test revealed five cases of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, all originating from the east coast of Spain and the Balearic Islands. In these areas the enzyme deficiency seems to occur focally at low frequencies near 1%.

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    G. Flatz & Ria Düren

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Flatz, G., Düren, R. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Spain. Hum Genet 4, 81–83 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00279183

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