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phenylketonuria

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  1. a genetic disorder of metabolism; lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency

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  • Several diseases are directly caused due to single nucleotide changes such as thalassaemia, muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, long QT syndrome, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy etc.
  • Newborn screening was pioneered in the 1940s by Robert Guthrie, who, having developed a simple blood test for a form of mental retardation called phenylketonuria PKU, proposed the newborn heel stick test to test for PKU and other “inborn errors of metabolism.” The $1,000 Genome
  • Samples obtained through screening programme for phenylketonuria and congenital hypothyroidism.
  • Objective To establish a simple, accurate and rapid method for screening of the mutant genes in phenylketonuria.
  • A classic example of an autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism is phenylketonuria.
  • Organic acidopathies (propionic acidemia, methylmalonic acidemia, biotinidase deficiency, phenylketonuria (PKU) and other disorders) Biochemical Genetics-Metabolic Disease
  • In terms of biochemical genetics, the consequences of a metabolic block may be rectified by dietary limitation of the precursor of an injurious accumulation product, aromatic amino acids in phenylketonuria; or by supplying the essential end product from without the cell, the specific blood protein in hemophilia, or a specific essential nutrient molecule such as a vitamin. Edward Tatum - Nobel Lecture
  • For example, read: “Intellectual performance of 36 phenylketonuria patients and their nonaffected siblings” by Dobson, Kushida and Williams (1976) in Pediatrics volume 58, pages53 – 58. The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
  • Years ago all babies were screened for a very rare condition called phenylketonuria PKU with a blood test. The Official Lamaze® Guide
  • Persons with a rare hereditary disease known as phenylketonuria must control their phenylalanine intake from all sources, including Aspartame.
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