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Metabolic Disorders
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- Overviews
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Prevention/Screening
- Disease Management
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
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- Genetics
- Research
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
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- Seniors
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Lipid Storage Diseases (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnostic Testing: Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) (Progeria Research Foundation, Inc.)
- Muscle Biopsy for Diagnosis of Metabolic Diseases (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Skin Biopsy for Diagnosis of Metabolic Diseases (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- Layperson's Guide to Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Newborn Screening (Save Babies Through Screening Foundation)
- Newborn Screening Tests (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish
Disease Management
- Disease Management
- Management of MPS (Mucopolysaccharidosis) and ML (Mucolipidoses) (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Amyloidosis (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Barth Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Carnitine Palitoyl Transferase Deficiency Type II (CPT-II) (Save Babies Through Screening Foundation)
- Guide to Understanding Hunter Syndrome: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) II (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
- Guide to Understanding Hurler, Hurler-Scheie and Scheie Syndromes: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) I (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
- Guide to Understanding I-Cell Disease and Pseudo-Hurler Polydystrophy: Mucolipidoses (ML) II and III (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
- Guide to Understanding Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) VI (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
- Guide to Understanding Morquio Syndrome: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) IV (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
- Guide to Understanding Sanfilippo Syndrome: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) III (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
- Guide to Understanding Sly Syndrome: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) VII (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
- Hypophosphatasia (Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases-National Resource Center)
- Learning about Progeria (National Human Genome Research Institute)
- Learning about Trimethylaminuria (National Human Genome Research Institute)
- Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Metabolic Diseases of Muscle: Questions and Answers (Muscular Dystrophy Association)
Also available in: Spanish - Methylmalonic Aciduria (MMA) (Save Babies Through Screening Foundation)
- Mitochondrial Myopathies (Muscular Dystrophy Association)
Also available in: Spanish - Mitochondrial Myopathies (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Mucolipidoses (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Mucopolysaccharidoses (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Also available in: Spanish - Multiple CoA Carboxylase Deficiency (Save Babies Through Screening Foundation)
- Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia (NKH) (Save Babies Through Screening Foundation)
- Pompe Disease (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Type I Glycogen Storage Disease (American Liver Foundation)
- What Is a Urea Cycle Disorder? (National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation)
- What Is Hyperoxaluria and Oxalosis? (Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- National Newborn Screening Status Reports (National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center) - Links to PDF
- Understanding MPS and ML: Is Your Child Having an Anesthetic? (National MPS Society) - Links to PDF
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Metabolic Diseases (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Mucolipidoses (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Mucopolysaccharidoses (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Progeria (National Institutes of Health)
Genetics
- Genetics
- Genetics Home Reference: 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA lyase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Alkaptonuria (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Beta-ketothiolase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Biotinidase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Citrullinemia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Galactosemia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Homocystinuria (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Isovaleric acidemia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Maple syrup urine disease (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Methylmalonic acidemia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Niemann-Pick disease (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Primary hyperoxaluria (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Propionic acidemia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Trimethylaminuria (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Very long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genes and Disease: Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Research
- Research
- Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
- NCI Study Demonstrates That Cellular Defects in Premature Aging Disease Are Reversible (National Cancer Institute)
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- MPS (Mucopolysaccharidoses) Glossary (National MPS Society)
Directories
- Directories
- Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (Office of Rare Diseases)
- Laboratory Directory-GeneReviews (Children's Health Care System, Seattle)
- Organizations for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- US Clinic Directory Search (Children's Health Care System, Seattle)
Organizations
- Organizations
- Barth Syndrome Foundation
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National MPS Society (Mucopolysaccharidoses) (National MPS Society)
- Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation
- Progeria Research Foundation, Inc.
- Save Babies Through Screening Foundation
- United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
Seniors
- Seniors
- Low Blood Sodium in Older Adults (Hyponatremia) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)