Aspartylglycosaminuria with Treatment and Prevention
September 8th, 2008
Aspartylglycosaminuria are ingeboren an error of metabolism, and one of the lysosomal rise sickness. It becomes clearly after the zuigeling a couple is months old. It is a member of finnish disease heritage, a group of diseases or syndromes caused by mutation in a single gene characterized by higher frequency in Finland than the rest of the world. If an adult carrying the abnormal gene has a partner who also is a carrier, there will be a one in four chance with every pregnancy that the child will inherit the defective gene from each parent and will suffer from the disease. There is a two in three chance that unaffected brothers and sisters of aspartylglycosaminuria sufferers will be carriers. Deficiency of the aspartylglucosaminidase, an enzyme which cleaves the N-acetyl-glucosamine-asparagine linkage of oligosaccharide chains in glycoprotein and glycopeptide metabolism.