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CDG: a new case of a combined defect in the biosynthesis of N- and O-glycans

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Abbreviations

CDG:

Congenital disorders of glycosylation

IEF:

Isoelectric focusing

HPLC:

High performance liquid chromatography

Tf:

Transferrin

aAT:

Alpha1-antitrypsin

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Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to coworkers from Charles University, Faculty of Medicine and Hospital in Hradec Králové, CR, namely M. Beránek for DNA isolations, D. Vokurková for Lewis X antigen analysis, and L. Šerclová for neurological examinations. We are grateful to K. Huijben, University Medical Center Nijmegen, Netherlands, for special IEF analyses, and to T. Hennet, Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, for lipid-linked oligosaccharide analysis. This study was supported by the research project MZO 00179906 and Euroglycanet (contract nr. 512131).

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Ziad Albahri, Eliška Marklová & Petr Dědek

  2. Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Helena Hojdíková

  3. Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Fiedler

  4. Institutes of Neurology and Pediatrics, University Radboud Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Dirk Lefeber, Ron A Wevers, Eva Morava & Suzan Wopereis

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty Hospital, Sokolská 581, 500 05, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Eliška Marklová

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Albahri, Z., Marklová, E., Dědek, P. et al. CDG: a new case of a combined defect in the biosynthesis of N- and O-glycans. Eur J Pediatr 165, 203–204 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-005-0047-2

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