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Mucopolysaccharidosis type VI

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Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome is a lysosomal storage disease caused by defects in the enzyme arylsulphatase B.

The disease is similar to:

  • MPS IV because somatic features are prominent but intellectual dysfunction is absent
  • MPS I because there is a similar pattern of somatic involvement

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