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- noun medicine A rare
autosomal -recessive disorder ofrenal tubular transport affectingreabsorption of theamino acid glycine and theimino acids proline andhydroxyproline , resulting in excessurinary excretion of all three acids.
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The researchers looked at two disorders of kidney function - iminoglycinuria and hyperglycinuria.
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The researchers looked at two disorders of kidney function - iminoglycinuria and hyperglycinuria.
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John Rasko and colleagues, at the Centenary Institute, Australia, have provided new insight into the genes that are mutated in individuals with two related kidney defects: iminoglycinuria (IG), which occurs when individuals cannot efficiently reabsorp the protein building blocks glycine, proline, and hydroxyproline, so they are excreted at high levels in the urine; and hyperglycinuria without iminoaciduria (HG), which occurs when individuals cannot efficiently reabsorp glycine, so it is excreted at high levels in the urine.
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