Aspartylglycosaminuria: A rare glycoprotein metabolism disorder caused by a deficiency of an enzyme called aspartylglucosaminidase. Patients tend to develop normally during the first few years of life and development continues slowly until adolescence when mental retardation becomes progressively worse. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Aspartylglycosaminuria is available below.
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Prognosis for Aspartylglycosaminuria: Patients tend to survive until mid-adulthood. Mental retardation and disability may be severe by this stage.
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Aspartylglycosaminuria is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Aspartylglycosaminuria, or a subtype of Aspartylglycosaminuria,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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