ESPE Abstracts

Background: Fanconi Bickel syndrome (FBS) is a rare form of glycogen storage disease (GSD) inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and caused by mutations in the SLC2A2 gene leading to the loss of GLUT2 glucose transporter expression. The disease is considered to be rare in which a little more than 100 cases have been reported in the literature. The SLC2A2 gene encodes for GLUT2, a low affinity facilitative glucose transporter expressed in critical tissues ...