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ArticleMolecular genetics & genomic medicine2023

Molecular characterization of phenylketonuria patients from the North Region of Brazil: State of Pará.

Pedro E Bonfim-Freitas, Roseani S Andrade, Ândrea K Ribeiro-Dos-Santos, Luiz C Santana-da Silva

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Article in Molecular genetics & genomic medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Genetic landscape of phenylketonuria in Brazil.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2026
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Pedro E Bonfim-FreitasLaboratory of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7789-9729
Roseani S AndradeFaculty of Nutrition, Institute of Health Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Ândrea K Ribeiro-Dos-SantosLaboratory of Human and Medical Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Luiz C Santana-da SilvaLaboratory of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Pará · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPhenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive disease resulting from a deficiency of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). Hyperphenylalaninemias (HPA) due to PAH deficiency are accompanied by a wide variety of clinical, biochemical, and molecular features. To identify and characterize pathogenic variants in the PAH gene and establish a correlation between genotype and biochemical phenotype in patients with PKU from state of Pará in the North Region of Brazil.

methodsAll 13 exons of the PAH gene from 32 patients (21 PKU and 11 non-PKU HPA) were amplified by PCR and submitted to DNA sequencing (Sanger). Biochemical data were obtained from the patients' medical records.

resultsMolecular analysis identified 17 pathogenic variants and 3 nonpathogenic variants. The most frequent pathogenic variants were IVS10-11G>A (7.9%), p. Arg261Gln (7.9%), p. Val388Met (6.3%) and p. Ile65Thr (4.7%). Was observed correlations and inconsistencies between genotype and biochemical phenotype.

conclusionIn PKU patients from state of Pará, North Region of Brazil, a heterogeneous mutation spectrum was revealed, in which the most frequent mutations are variants commonly observed in other Brazilian studies and in the region of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Phenylalanine HydroxylasePhenylketonuriasBrazilGenotypeHumansMutationPhenylalanine Hydroxylasegenotype-phenotypenorth of Brazilpathogenic variantsphenylketonuriaPKU

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