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Diagnosis and management of trimethylaminuria (FMO3 deficiency) in children.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Feb 2006
Chalmers R A, Bain M D, Michelakakis H, Zschocke J, Iles R A
Abstract excerpt
Persistent trimethylaminuria in children is caused by autosomal recessively inherited impairment of hepatic trimethylamine (TMA) oxidation due to deficiency of flavin monooxygenase 3 (FMO3) secondary to mutations in the FMO3 gene. Trimethylaminuria or 'fish odour syndrome' is due to excessive excretion into body fluids and breath of TMA derived from the enterobacterial metabolism of dietary precursors. The...
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