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Lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency
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phenylketonuria
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Phenylketonuria ( PKU ) is an inborn error of metabolism involving impaired metabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine . Phenylketonuria is caused by absent or virtually absent phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) enzyme activity. Both PKU and most non-PKU hyperphenylalaninemia ...
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n. a genetic disorder of metabolism; lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency [syn: PKU ]
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n. (context medicine English) A metabolic disorder in which individuals lack the liver enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (''PAH'') which is needed to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine.
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The defeat of the baby-farming lobby removes a long-time stigma from the fair brow of the Junior-but-One State - a congenital stigma, one may say, since the J-but-O State's accession to hoodness coincided almost to the day with the first eugenic legislation concerned with haemophilia, phenylketonuria and congenital imbecility .