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Table 2 Large-molecule disorders of IEMs in KAMC (2001–2014). Total numbers of live births (110,601)

From: Thirteen year retrospective review of the spectrum of inborn errors of metabolism presenting in a tertiary center in Saudi Arabia

Disease category

Number of cases diagnosed

Incidence per 100,000

Mean age at diagnosis

Median age at diagnosis

Range of age

Lysosomal Storage Diseases (LSD)

41

37

3.6 year

3 years

2 months–13 years

Sphingolipidosis

22

20

3.1 years

2 years

2 months–13 years

Fabry disease

3

    

Sandhoff disease

2

    

Niemann–Pick disease type B

1

    

Niemann–Pick disease type C

3

    

GM1 gangliosidosis (infantile phenotype)

4

    

Metachromatic leukodystrophy

3

    

Saposin B Deficiency

2

    

Krabbe disease

1

    

Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS)

15

14

5 years

5 years

5 months–12 years

MPS I

1

    

MPS II

1

    

MPS IIIA

2

    

MPS IVA

5

    

MPS VI

6

    

Oligosaccharidosis

2

2

3 years

3 years

2–4 years

Mucolipidosis II

1

    

α-mannosidosis

1

    

Others

     

Neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses

3: 2 type 6, and 1 type 8

 

5.3

5

5–6 years

GSD II

2

 

3.1 months

3.1 months

1 week to 6 months

Glycogen storage diseases (GSD)

5

4

2.2 years

2 years

15 months–4 years

GSD III

1

    

GSD IV

1

    

GSD IX

3

    

Mitochondrial disorders

12

11

2.2 years

8 months

1 week–8 years

Leigh disease

3

    

Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency

2

    

Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency

2

    

Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 3

1

    

Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 5

1

    

Cardioencephalomyopathy, fatal infantile, due to cytochrome c oxidase deficiency 1

1

    

3-Methylglutaconic aciduria with deafness, encephalopathy, and Leigh-like

1

    

Primary Coenzyme Q10 deficiency type 5

1

    

Peroxisomal disorders

7

6

2 years

9 months

1 week–8 years

Primary hyperoxaluria type 1

5

    

Zellweger syndrome

1

    

Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata

1

    

Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG)

1 (CDG 1 L)

1

8 years

8 years

8 years

Total

66

60

3.1 years

2 years

1 week–13 years