Carnosinase deficiency

Carnosinemia is a very rare inherited disorder that presents with serum carnosinase deficiency.

Psychomotor retardation



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PMID (PMCID)
9029640
FEMALE
A deletion in the long arm of chromosome 18 in a child with serum carnosinase deficiency.
Willi SM, Zhang Y, Hill JB, Phelan MC, Michaelis RC, Holden KR.
Pediatr Res. 1997;41(2):210-3.
Several reports of serum carnosinase deficiency describe a variable phenotype, which ranges from normal to severe psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, and myoclonic seizures in the first year of life.