Lesch-Nyhan disease


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Lesch-Nyhan disease

(lĕsh′nī′ăn)
[Michael Lesch, b. 1939, William Leo Nyhan, b. 1926, U.S. pediatricians]
An X-linked recessive metabolic disease, in which mental retardation, aggressive behavior, self-mutilation, and renal failure are exhibited by affected boys. The disease is caused by faulty purine metabolism, resulting in excessive uric acid levels in the body.
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Lesch-Nyhan disease is caused by a mutant gene on the X chromosome.
A single mutation in the gene that encodes an enzyme called hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase, or HGPRT, is responsible for Lesch-Nyhan disease. In its mutant form, the enzyme does not function.
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Uric acid overproduction is a characteristic of Lesch-Nyhan disease. Uric acid is a trioxypurine without protons on its carbon atoms; therefore, it is [sup.1]H-NMR invisible.
In the patients with inborn errors of purine metabolism, [sup.1]H-NMR spectroscopy of urine samples led to the diagnosis in all patients with PNP deficiency, xanthinuria, molybdenum cofactor deficiency, Lesch-Nyhan disease, ADA deficiency, and adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency.
[sup.1]H-NMR spectroscopy of body fluids: inborn errors of purine and pyrimidine metabolism

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