title: Incidence of glycogen storage disease in the German Federal Republic.
abstract: 100 cases of GSD were traced in the GFR.  The overall incidence is 1:113000 in proportion to live births.  Type I occurs most frequently with 30%, followed by Type II and Type VI with 20% each.  Type III is extremely rate in the GFR.  5 cases were classified as glycogenosis with the Fanconi syndrome.  With the exception of Type III the type distribution in the GFR was similar to that found in 316 cases in a diagnostic center in Belgium.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005860:Germany, West; D006008:Glycogen Storage Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005953:Glycogen Storage Disease Type I / Q000453:epidemiology; D006009:Glycogen Storage Disease Type II / Q000453:epidemiology; D006010:Glycogen Storage Disease Type III / Q000453:epidemiology; D006013:Glycogen Storage Disease Type VI / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics; D013577:Syndrome