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Science 31 March 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3770, pp. 1682 - 1684
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3770.1682
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Enzyme Defect Associated with a Sex-Linked Human Neurological Disorder and Excessive Purine Synthesis

J. Edwin Seegmiller 1, Frederick M. Rosenbloom 1, and William N. Kelley 1

1 Section on Human Biochemical Genetics, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

A sex-linked familial neurological disease consisting of cerebral palsy, mental retardation, choreoathetosis, and compulsive aggressive behavior is associated with a loss of an enzyme that participates in purine metabolism, namely, hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase. The production of excessive uric acid in this disorder implies that the enzyme is involved in the normal regulation of purine biosynthesis. This is the first example of a relation between a specific enzyme defect and abnormal compulsive behavior. It is also the first enzyme defect in purine metabolism demonstrated in a neurological disease.


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