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Glycogen storage disease

Glycogen storage disease is any one of several metabolic disorders[?] that result from enzyme defects that affect the processing of glycogen within muscles and other cell types.

There are eight diseases that are commonly considered to be glycogen storage diseases:

GSD type I: von Guerke's disease[?]
GSD type II: acid maltase deficiency[?]
GSD type III: debrancher deficiency[?]
GSD type IV: Andersen disease[?]
GSD type V: McArdle disease
GSD type VI: liver phosphorylase deficiency[?]
GSD type VII: muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency[?]
GSD type IX: phosphorylase kinase deficiency[?]

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