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Preferred term

Phenylketonurias  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Phenylketonuria

Scope note

  • A group of autosomal recessive disorders marked by a deficiency of the hepatic enzyme PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE or less frequently by reduced activity of DIHYDROPTERIDINE REDUCTASE (i.e., atypical phenylketonuria). Classical phenylketonuria is caused by a severe deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase and presents in infancy with developmental delay; SEIZURES; skin HYPOPIGMENTATION; ECZEMA; and demyelination in the central nervous system. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p952).

History note

  • 2000(1974)

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • fenylketonuriat
  • fenyyliketonuria
  • klassinen fenylketonuria
  • klassisk fenylketonuri
  • phenylketonuria
  • phenylketonuria classica
  • PKU
  • Swedish

  • Atypisk PKU
  • Fenylketonuri type 2
  • Föllings sjukdom
  • PKU

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010661

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