MAOB, monoamine oxidase B, 4129

N. diseases: 152; N. variants: 8
Disease: Classical phenylketonuria ×
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0751434
Disease: Classical phenylketonuria
Classical phenylketonuria 		0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE As phenylethylamine, a very toxic metabolite of phenylalanine, is rapidly degraded by monoamine oxydase type B, an enzyme that has a very low activity in neonates, these results are consistent with those of the hypothesis of MAO-B acting as a modifying gene in phenylketonuria. 15589121 2004