Nonketotic hyperglycinemia is an inborn error of glycine metabolism caused by a deficiency of the glycine cleavage system, which is composed of four proteins in the mitochondria and results in severe neurologic dysfunctions.
Category
Inherited metabolic disorder
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Metabolic disorders
Inborn errors of metabolism
5C50 Inborn errors of amino acid or other organic acid metabolism
H00191 Nonketotic hyperglycinemia
Pathway-based classification of diseases [BR:br08402]
Amino acid metabolism
nt06033 Glycine, serine and arginine metabolism
H00191 Nonketotic hyperglycinemia
Boneh A, Korman SH, Sato K, Kanno J, Matsubara Y, Lerer I, Ben-Neriah Z, Kure S
Title
A single nucleotide substitution that abolishes the initiator methionine codon of the GLDC gene is prevalent among patients with glycine encephalopathy in Jerusalem.