Infantile or complex glycerol kinase deficiency is a contiguous gene syndrome caused by microdeletion of GK (300474) and its neighboring genes, dystrophin (300377), which causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD; 310200), and NR0B1 (300473), which causes congenital adrenal hypoplasia (AHC; 300200). Patients present with hyperglycerolemia and glyceroluria, associated with DMD and/or AHC (summary by Stanczak et al., 2007). [from
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