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Inborn errors of metabolism

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idiosyncrasia
An idiosyncrasy is a unique feature of something. The term is often used to express peculiarity.
inherited metabolic disorder
class of disease including endocrine diseases, nutritional diseases and metabolic diseases
trimethylaminuria
Trimethylaminuria (TMAU), also known as fish odor syndrome or fish malodor syndrome, is a rare metabolic disorder that causes a defect in the normal production of an enzyme named flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3). When FMO3 is not working correctly or if not enough enzyme is produced, the body loses the ability to properly convert the rotting fish smelling chemical trimethylamine (TMA) from precursor compounds in food digestion into trimethylamine oxide (TMAO), through a process called N-oxidation.
lysosomal storage disease
inherited metabolic disorder that involve an abnormal accumulation of substances inside the lysosome resulting from defects in lysosomal function
newborn screening
testing of newborn infants for medical conditions
sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia, also known as phytosterolemia, is a rare autosomal recessively inherited lipid metabolic disorder. It is characterized by hyperabsorption and decreased biliary excretion of dietary sterols (including the phytosterol beta-sitosterol). Healthy persons absorb only about 5% of dietary plant sterols, but sitosterolemia patients absorb 15% to 60% of ingested sitosterol without excreting much into the bile. It's named after the most abundant phytosterol in the diet, sitosterol, though other phytosterols are also involved. The phytosterol campesterol is more readily absorbed than sitos
Leloir pathway
metabolic pathway for the catabolism of D-galactose
congenital disorder of glycosylation
carbohydrate metabolic disorder that involves deficient or defective glycosylation of a variety of tissue proteins and/or lipids
glycine encephalopathy
amino acid metabolic disorder that involves abnormally high levels of the amino acid glycine in bodily fluids and tissues
Winchester syndrome
human disease
biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease
Human disease