scholarly journals Argininosuccinic Acid Lyase Deficiency Missed by Newborn Screen

2016 ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca D. Ganetzky ◽  
Emma Bedoukian ◽  
Matthew A. Deardorff ◽  
Can Ficicioglu
PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-531
Author(s):  
Henry W. Talbot ◽  
Adam B. Sumlin ◽  
Edwin W. Naylor ◽  
Robert Guthrie

A simple enzyme-multiple auxotroph assay has been developed for the identification of newborn infants with several of the inherited metabolic defects in the Krebs cycle for the detoxification of ammonia and in the ornithine metabolic pathway. This mass screening test is used with dried filter paper blood specimens and can easily be added to existing multiple testing programs presently used in screening for phenylketonuria or congenital hypothyroidism. This assay can be used to detect patients with citrullinemia, argininosuccinic acid lyase deficiency, and argininemia. In addition to these urea cycle disorders, the several types of ornithinemia, which can result in gyrate atrophy of the retina or mental retardation, should be detectable with this assay. The strengths and weaknesses of this assay are discussed and a large-scale pilot screening trial is proposed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (18) ◽  
pp. 1899-1901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Krijt ◽  
Vaclava Skopova ◽  
Vaclava Adamkova ◽  
Renata Cermakova ◽  
Agnieszka Jurecka ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 483-496
Author(s):  
Meera Shaunak ◽  
Norman F. Taylor ◽  
David Hunt ◽  
Justin H. Davies

Objective: The objective of this study was to report CYB5A deficiency, to discuss the contribution of steroid metabolomics to diagnosis and interpretation, and to highlight the presence of testicular microlithiasis. Methods: Two siblings with ambiguous genitalia at birth were later found to carry novel CYB5A variants, with resulting isolated 17, 20 lyase deficiency. We compared urine steroid data obtained between birth and adulthood with that from other cases. Results: Neonatal urine steroid profiles show a relative increase of 16-hydroxylated pregnenolone metabolites. Thereafter, there are no distinguishing features until puberty, when sex steroid deficiency drives gonadotrophin production, resulting in marked increases of 17-hydroxyprogesterone metabolites derived from the gonads. This excess may be revealed pre-pubertally by gonadotrophin stimulation testing. Novel findings are first, a considerable capacity for DHEA synthesis in the neonatal period compared to childhood and adulthood, suggesting that DHEAS production is much less dependent on CYB5A at birth; second, no consistent change in “backdoor pathway” intermediates; third, side chain cleavage of cortisol is largely unaffected, supporting the existence of a different lyase not dependent on CYB5A; fourth, increased 17-hydroxyprogesterone metabolites and very low androgen metabolites are diagnostic post-pubertally. Conclusion: This is the fourth disease-causing variant in CYB5A in isolated 17, 20 lyase deficiency and the first associated with testicular microlithiasis. Establishing a biochemical diagnosis pre-pubertally should now be possible using urine steroid profiling, supported by synacthen and gonadotrophin stimulation testing. We recommend liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry rather than immunoassay for serum steroid analysis, early methaemoglobin measurement and surveillance should testicular microlithiasis be detected.


Metabolism ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriyuki Katsumata ◽  
Eishin Ogawa ◽  
Ikuma Fujiwara ◽  
Kaori Fujikura

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Marie ◽  
Jolanda W. A. M. Flipsen ◽  
Marinus Duran ◽  
Bwee Tien Poll-The ◽  
Fritz A. Beemer ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Christina G. Tise ◽  
Jose Andres Morales ◽  
Ariel S. Lee ◽  
Frances Velez‐Bartolomei ◽  
Brendan J. Floyd ◽  
...  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yüksel Yýlmaz ◽  
Nihal Özdemir ◽  
Gazanfer Ekinci ◽  
Tolunay Baykal ◽  
Canan Kocaman

Neurology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1748-1751 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-i. Satoh ◽  
Y. Kuroda ◽  
H. Nawata ◽  
T. Yanase

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