Inborn errors of amino acid metabolism

Inborn errors of amino acid metabolism

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Inborn errors of amino acid metabolism are metabolic disorders which impair the synthesis and degradation of amino acids.

An example is maple syrup urine disease.

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* http://www.med.unibs.it/~marchesi/aminoaciddiseases.html


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