Histidinemia

Description

Histidinemia is a rare metabolic disorder characterized by elevated histidine levels in blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid, generally with no clinical repercussions.

Clinical Features

Top most frequent phenotypes and symptoms related to Histidinemia

  • Intellectual disability
  • Sensorineural hearing impairment
  • Wide nasal bridge
  • Long philtrum
  • Macrotia
  • Thin upper lip vermilion
  • Smooth philtrum
  • Generalized myoclonic seizures
  • Hypoplastic toenails
  • Short middle phalanx of finger

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Incidence and onset information

— Currently we don't have prevalence information about this disease (Not enough data available about incidence and published cases.)
No data available about the known clinical features onset.

Alternative names

Histidinemia Is also known as his deficiency, histidinuria, histidase deficiency, hyperhistidinemia, hal deficiency, histidine ammonia-lyase deficiency.

Researches and researchers

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Histidinemia Recommended genes panels

Panel Name, Specifity and genes Tested/covered
Histidinemia (sequence analysis of HAL gene).

By CGC Genetics (Portugal).

HAL
Specificity
100 %
Genes
100 %
qCarrier Plus.

By Quantitative Genomic Medicine Laboratories, SL (Spain).

RMRP, RP2, RPE65, RPGR, RPS6KA3, RS1, SACS, SGCA, SGCB, SGSH, SLC16A2, SLC22A5, SLC25A13, SLC26A2, SLC3A1, SLC5A5, SLC6A8, KDM5C, SMN1, BTD , (...)

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Specificity
1 %
Genes
100 %
HAL.

By Fulgent Genetics Fulgent Genetics (United States).

HAL
Specificity
100 %
Genes
100 %
Otogenetics Hearing Loss and Deafness Multi-Gene NGS Panel.

By Otogenetics (United States).

BCS1L, SIX1, SIX5, SNAI2, SMPX, SOX2, TBL1X, TCF21, TECTA, TFCP2, TIMM8A, TJP2, TMPRSS3, FAS, USH1C, USH2A, CLRN1, WFS1, ACTB, ESPN , (...)

View the complete list with 108 more genes
Specificity
1 %
Genes
100 %

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Sources and references

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