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What is alkaptonuria?

What is alkaptonuria? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.
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Among them are hypertension, alkaptonuria, systemic chondromalacia, relapsing polychondritis, and familial cold hypersensitivity.
Alkaptonuria is an example of the simple model of genetic disease.
Garrod to map a metabolic disease, alkaptonuria, to a Mendelian pattern of inheritance.
The patient is a 66-year-old, white woman with a known history of alkaptonuria.
The diagnosis of alkaptonuria was confirmed by the presence of markedly elevated homogentisic acid levels.
Robert Gregory, 63, from Childwall, has a debilitating condition called Alkaptonuria which is known as Black Bone Disease because it makes sufferers bone go black and brittle.

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