“…The prevalence of CGL in Saudi Arabia is unknown; only four cases were reported in the literature, although the true prevalence may be higher due to the high prevalence of consanguinity in this country 9‐11 . Worldwide, there are only hundreds of reported cases of CGL in the literature and the estimated prevalence of lipodystrophy is around 1.3–4.7 cases/million 12 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…7 The prevalence of CGL in Saudi Arabia is unknown; only four cases were reported in the literature, although the true prevalence may be higher due to the high prevalence of consanguinity in this country. [9][10][11] Worldwide, there are only hundreds of reported cases of CGL in the literature and the estimated prevalence of lipodystrophy is around 1.3-4.7 cases/million. 12 We herein reported the clinical and molecular characteristics of two Saudi female siblings with CGL type 1 due to frameshift homozygous AGPAT2 variant c.158del/p.…”
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“…The prevalence of CGL in Saudi Arabia is unknown; only four cases were reported in the literature, although the true prevalence may be higher due to the high prevalence of consanguinity in this country 9‐11 . Worldwide, there are only hundreds of reported cases of CGL in the literature and the estimated prevalence of lipodystrophy is around 1.3–4.7 cases/million 12 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…7 The prevalence of CGL in Saudi Arabia is unknown; only four cases were reported in the literature, although the true prevalence may be higher due to the high prevalence of consanguinity in this country. [9][10][11] Worldwide, there are only hundreds of reported cases of CGL in the literature and the estimated prevalence of lipodystrophy is around 1.3-4.7 cases/million. 12 We herein reported the clinical and molecular characteristics of two Saudi female siblings with CGL type 1 due to frameshift homozygous AGPAT2 variant c.158del/p.…”
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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