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Maple syrup urine disease due to a new large deletion at BCKDHA caused by non-homologous recombination.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Dec 2008
Quental S, Martins E, Vilarinho L, Amorim A, João Prata M
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Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare disorder of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) metabolism caused by the defective function of branched-chain α-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex (BCKD). Many MSUD-causing mutations have already been described in genes that encode the complex (BCKDHA, BCKDHB a...
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