Saccharopinuria

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Saccharopinuria
Classification and external resources
Saccharopine
ICD-9 270.7
OMIM 268700

Saccharopinuria (an excess of saccharopine in the urine), also called saccharopinemia or saccharopine dehydrogenase deficiency, is a variant form of hyperlysinemia caused by a partial deficiency of the enzyme saccharopine dehydrogenase, which plays a secondary role in the lysine metabolic pathway.

Saccharopinuria has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.
Saccharopinuria has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.

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