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urocanase deficiency

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A histidine metabolism disease characterized by urocanic aciduria and other variable manifestations including intellectual disability and intermittent ataxia that has_material_basis_in mutation homozygous or compound heterozygous in the UROC1 gene on chromosom

A histidine metabolism disease characterized by urocanic aciduria and other variable manifestations including intellectual disability and intermittent ataxia that has_material_basis_in mutation homozygous or compound heterozygous in the UROC1 gene on chromosome 3q21.3.

Signs and symptoms

  • Broad-based gait
  • Action tremor
  • Truncal ataxia
  • Moderate intellectual disability
  • Dysmetria
  • Gait ataxia
  • Ataxia
  • Urocanic aciduria
  • Nystagmus
  • Short stature

Also known as: UROCD; encephalopathy due to urocanase deficiency; high urine urocanic acid levels; urocanate hydratase deficiency; urocanic aciduria