| Term Name: | maple syrup urine disease type IA |
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| Definition: | A maple syrup urine disease characterized by mental and physical retardation, feeding problems, and a maple syrup odor to the urine that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the BCKDHA gene, which encodes the E1-alpha subunit of the branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase complex (BCKDC), on chromosome 19q13. |
| Ontology: | Human Disease [DOID:0061203] ( DOID:0061203 ) |