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  2. Phenylketonuria - Wikipedia

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    Phenylketonuria is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion. PKU is an autosomal recessive metabolic genetic disorder. As an autosomal recessive disorder, two PKU alleles are required for an individual to experience symptoms of the disease. For a child to inherit PKU, both parents must have and pass on the defective gene. [17]

  3. Hyperphenylalaninemia - Wikipedia

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    Phenylketonuria (PKU)-like symptoms, including more pronounced developmental defects, skin irritation, and vomiting, may appear when phenylalanine levels are near 20 mg/dL (1200 mol/L). [1] Hyperphenylalaninemia is a recessive hereditary metabolic disorder that is caused by the body's failure to convert phenylalanine to tyrosine as a result of ...

  4. Neurodevelopmental disorder - Wikipedia

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    Phenylketonuria, also known as PKU, can induce neurodevelopmental problems and children with PKU require a strict diet to prevent intellectual disability and other disorders. In the maternal form of PKU , excessive maternal phenylalanine can be absorbed by the fetus even if the fetus has not inherited the disease.

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  6. Genetics - Wikipedia

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    The mutation that causes phenylketonuria disrupts the ability of the body to break down the amino acid phenylalanine, causing a toxic build-up of an intermediate molecule that, in turn, causes severe symptoms of progressive intellectual disability and seizures. However, if someone with the phenylketonuria mutation follows a strict diet that ...

  7. Inborn errors of metabolism - Wikipedia

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    E.g., reduction of dietary protein remains a mainstay of treatment for phenylketonuria and other amino acid disorders Dietary supplementation or replacement E.g., oral ingestion of cornstarch several times a day helps prevent people with glycogen storage diseases from becoming seriously hypoglycemic .

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  9. Phenylalanine - Wikipedia

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    Pregnant women with PKU must control their blood phenylalanine levels even if the fetus is heterozygous for the defective gene because the fetus could be adversely affected due to hepatic immaturity. [medical citation needed] A non-food source of phenylalanine is the artificial sweetener aspartame. This compound is metabolized by the body into ...