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Phenylalanine hydroxylase: A biomarker of disease susceptibility in Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Sept 2018
Steventon Glyn B, Mitchell Stephen C
Abstract excerpt
The S-oxidation of S-carboxymethyl-l-cysteine has been reported previously to be a biomarker of disease susceptibility in Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In this investigation, the original observations have been confirmed with the incidence of the poor metaboliser phenotype (no urinary recovery of S-oxide metabolites) being found to be 3.9% within healthy control population. However, 38.3%...
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