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Mucopolysaccharidosis II

"Mucopolysaccharidosis II" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Systemic lysosomal storage disease marked by progressive physical deterioration and caused by a deficiency of L-sulfoiduronate sulfatase. This disease differs from MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS I by slower progression, lack of corneal clouding, and X-linked rather than autosomal recessive inheritance. The mild form produces near-normal intelligence and life span. The severe form usually causes death by age 15.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mucopolysaccharidosis II" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Mucopolysaccharidosis II" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2007 and 2010 and 2011 and 2016 and 2021
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.