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12.5 Enzyme defects in amino acid metabolism

Subsections:
12.5.1 Phenylketonuria
12.5.2 Tyrosinemia type I

Since there are as many pathways as there are individual amino acids, it is understandable that many of the known inborn errors of metabolism are related to amino acid metabolism. We will consider but a few examples that affect the pathways discussed here.

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Metabolism course notes. Author: Michael Palmer, University of Waterloo Page last modified: 10-12-08