Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite
Genetic Disorder Database

Pyruvate kinase deficiency of red cells

Disorder
OMIM #: #266200  (Click to access OMIM database)
Disorder: Pyruvate kinase deficiency of red cells 
Also known as: Pyruvate kinase deficiency of erythrocyte
PK deficiency 
Clinical
Phenotype: hemolytic anemia, decreased hemoglobin, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, jaundice, sudden death 
Seen In: Amish
Old Order Mennonite
Old Colony Mennonite
Unknown/Other Mennonite
Hutterite
Remarks: Autosomal recessive 
Mutations
1   Amish  
Gene: PKLR
Base Change: G>A, at nucleotide 1436
Amino Acid Change: arg 479 --> his
Last updated: 2022-11-15 

References
Al-Samkari H, van Beers EJ, Morton DH, Barcellini W, Eber SW, Glader B, Yaish HM, Chonat S, Kuo KHM, Kollmar N, Despotovic JM, Pospíšilová D, Knoll CM, Kwiatkowski JL, Pastore YD, Thompson AA, Wlodarski MW, Ravindranath Y, Rothman JA, Wang H, Holzhauer S, Breakey VR, Verhovsek MM, Kunz J, et al. (2020) Characterization of the severe phenotype of pyruvate kinase deficiency. Am J Hematol doi: 10.1002/ajh.25926.
PubMed ID: 32619047 
Bowman HS, Procopio F. (1963) Hereditary non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia of the pyruvate-kinase deficient type. Ann. Intern. Med. 58:567-591.
PubMed ID: 14014643 
Kanno H, Ballas S, Miwa S, Fujii H, and Bowman H. (1994) Molecular Abnormality of Erythroctye Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency in the Amish. Blood 83(8): 2311-2316.
PubMed ID: 8161798 
Muir W, Beutler E, Wasson C. (1984) Erythrocyte Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency in the Ohio Amish: Origin and Characterization of the Mutant Enzyme. Am J Hum Genet 36:634-639.
PubMed ID: 6731438 
Rider NL, Strauss KA, Brown K, Finkenstedt A, Puffenberger EG, Hendrickson CL, Robinson DL, Muenke N, Tselepis C, Saunders L, Zoller H, Morton DH. (2011) Erythrocyte pyruvate kinase deficiency in an old-order Amish cohort: longitudinal risk and disease management. Am J Hematol 86:827–834.
PubMed ID: 21815188 

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