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Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase) deficiency is a rare, inborn error of metabolism, that causes hypoglycemia and lactic acidosis in response to inadequate glucose intake and/or high intakes of fructose, sucrose, or sorbitol. Pregnancy in women with FBPase deficiency puts them at high risk for metabolic decompensation due to increased glucose demands from the growing fetus. Here we report a 31-year-old primipara who was treated starting at 14 weeks gestation with a diet high in complex carbohydrates and low in fructose, sucrose, and sorbitol and close monitoring of glucose levels throughout her pregnancy.
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February 2024
Metabolic Medicine Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute.
A distinct adipose tissue distribution pattern was observed in patients with methylmalonyl-CoA mutase deficiency, an inborn error of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) metabolism, characterized by centripetal obesity with proximal upper and lower extremity fat deposition and paucity of visceral fat, that resembles familial multiple lipomatosis syndrome. To explore brown and white fat physiology in methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), body composition, adipokines, and inflammatory markers were assessed in 46 patients with MMA and 99 matched controls. Fibroblast growth factor 21 levels were associated with acyl-CoA accretion, aberrant methylmalonylation in adipose tissue, and an attenuated inflammatory cytokine profile.
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August 2022
Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address:
Purpose: Several groups and resources provide information that pertains to the validity of gene-disease relationships used in genomic medicine and research; however, universal standards and terminologies to define the evidence base for the role of a gene in disease and a single harmonized resource were lacking. To tackle this issue, the Gene Curation Coalition (GenCC) was formed.
Methods: The GenCC drafted harmonized definitions for differing levels of gene-disease validity on the basis of existing resources, and performed a modified Delphi survey with 3 rounds to narrow the list of terms.
Am J Hum Genet
September 2021
Section of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA.
Am J Hum Genet
September 2021
Departments of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Epidemiology, University of Florida College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
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