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. 2021 Jan 20;187(3):301–311. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.31883

TABLE 2.

COVID‐19 and rare diseases in Brazil: most frequently reported diseases (n = 1,466) a

Disease n (%)
Phenylketonuria 95 (6.5)
Porphyrias 83 (5.7)
Acute intermittent 55 (66.3)
Cutanea tarda 5 (6.0)
Erythropoietic 4 (4.8)
Variegata 4 (4.8)
Hereditary coproporphyria 2 (2.4)
Not specified 13 (15.7)
Hepatic glycogen storage disease (GSD) 81 (5.5)
GSD I, subtype not specified 47 (58.0)
GSD III 5 (6.2)
Type not specified 29 (35.8)
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) 80 (5.5)
Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) 66 (4.5)
VI 15 (22.7)
I 14 (21.2)
II 14 (21.2)
IV, subtype not specified 11 (16.7)
Type not specified 12 (18.2)
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia 47 (3.2)
Classical 14 (29.8)
Non‐classical 1 (2.1)
Type not specified 32 (68.1)
Prader‐Willi syndrome 47 (3.2)
Ataxias 45 (3.1)
Spinocerebellar (SCA) 29 (64.5)
SCA 1 1 (3.4)
SCA 2 1 (3.4)
SCA 3 24 (82.8)
SCA 6 1 (3.4)
Type not specified 2 (7.0)
Friedreich 6 (13.3)
Ataxia–telangiectasia 1 (2.2)
Type not specified 9 (20)
Cystic fibrosis 40 (2.7)
Gaucher disease 33 (2.2)
Williams syndrome 31 (2.1)
Osteogenesis imperfecta 30 (2.0)
Other (n = 180) 788 (53.8)
a

Disease groups corresponding to a minimum of 30 participants were cited individually.