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    Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder affecting branched-chain amino acids. It is one type of organic acidemia...
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    and their toxic by-products in the blood and urine, giving the condition the name maple syrup urine disease. On the other hand, unchecked activity of this...
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    the presence of amino acids in urine (diagnosed as maple syrup urine disease) can cause it to smell of maple syrup. Eating asparagus can cause a strong...
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    fenugreek, can impart a maple syrup aroma to one's sweat and urine. In some individuals with the genetic disorder maple syrup urine disease, it is spontaneously...
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    Thiamine (category Poultry diseases)
    beriberi and Wernicke encephalopathy. They are also used to treat maple syrup urine disease and Leigh syndrome. Supplements and medications are typically...
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    impaired in the following metabolic diseases: Combined malonic and methylmalonic aciduria (CMAMMA) Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) Methylmalonic acidemia Propionic...
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  • to bodily excretions (such as ear wax and urine), leading to a pathology known as maple syrup urine disease. This enzyme is an autoantigen recognized...
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    their urine smelled sweet like maple syrup. While he was not the one to discover the specific gene, he did discover the maple syrup urine disease(MSUD)...
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    from ɑ-KIC. α-KIC is a key metabolite present in the urine of people with Maple syrup urine disease, along with other branched-chain amino acids. Derivatives...
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  • Organic acidemia (category Rare diseases)
    methylmalonic acidemia, propionic acidemia, isovaleric acidemia, and maple syrup urine disease. Most of the organic acidemias result from defective autosomal...
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    1002/ajmg.c.20003. PMID 12888983. S2CID 25317649. "Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD) - Jewish Genetic Disease". Forbidden Fruit:Inbreeding among polygamists...
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    in only trace amounts, except for individuals suffering from maple syrup urine disease. Together with valine, leucine, and isoleucine, alloisoleucine...
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  • Disorders of amino acid metabolism phenylketonuria tyrosinemia maple syrup urine disease glutaric acidemia type 1 Urea Cycle Disorder or Urea Cycle Defects...
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  • resistance to intermarriage of this population. Kaposi's sarcoma Maple syrup urine disease Mucolipidosis IV Myeloproliferative neoplasms including polycythemia...
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  • fictional novels and plays. He identified two inherited diseases: maple syrup urine disease which is a defect in amino acid metabolism, and a defect...
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  • congenital metabolic diseases; some of the common include Maple syrup urine disease and other organic acidurias Type 1 glycogen storage disease Type III glycogen...
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    including: Immunoreactive trypsinogen to detect cystic fibrosis. Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD or Branched Chain Ketonuria) a rare disorder where an error...
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    symptom of meningitis, tetanus, severe kernicterus, or the rare maple syrup urine disease. This marked extensor tone can cause infants to "rear backwards"...
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  • Congenital hypothyroidism Isovaleric acidemia Glutaricaciduria type 1 Maple syrup urine disease Canada, the US, and the Netherlands offer more extensive newborn...
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    polypeptide (maple syrup urine disease). Gene map location 19q13.1-q13.2 APOE: Apolipoprotein E, gene associated with Alzheimer's disease. Gene map locus...
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  • particularly unusual symptom emerges, followed by uncontrollable seizures, it is discovered that the infant is affected by maple syrup urine disease....
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    the transacylase (E2) subunit. Mutations in this gene result in maple syrup urine disease, type 2. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described...
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    branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase E1, beta polypeptide (maple syrup urine disease) (6q14.1) BMIQ3: body mass index QTL 3 TMEM242 encoding transmembrane...
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  • impaired in the following metabolic diseases: Combined malonic and methylmalonic aciduria (CMAMMA) Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) Methylmalonic acidemia Propionic...
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    metabolism such as urea cycle disorders, maple syrup urine disease, and PKU. Measurement of amino acids in urine can be useful in the diagnosis of cystinuria...
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  • adapted his method to early screening tests for galactosemia and maple syrup urine disease. Guthrie received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota...
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  • Propionic acidemia (category Rare diseases)
    same enzyme pathway. Methylmalonic acidemia Isovaleric acidemia Maple syrup urine disease Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): 606054 Ravn K; Chloupkova...
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    Urinalysis (redirect from Urine microscopy)
    metabolism cause characteristic odors, such as maple syrup urine disease (which takes its name from the urine scent) and phenylketonuria (which causes a "mousey"...
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  • hypoglycemia, with the subtype IXa mainly affecting male children Maple syrup urine disease Prader-Willi syndrome Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency Ketotic...
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    developed effective treatments for such problems as maple syrup urine disease, a previously fatal disease. The clinic is embraced by most Amish, ending the...
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