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- noun A rare
metabolic disorder that causes a defect inenzyme production and consequentbody odour .
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Almost 40 years passed before Ms. Marshall, through her own research, learned about a metabolic disorder called trimethylaminuria, or TMAU.
NYT > Home Page By KAREN BARROW 2011
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The bottom line is, if you're the kind of person who thinks that because some people smell bad due to a certain genetic disease (trimethylaminuria, p. 64) it follows that Darwinian processes made the eye, this is the book for you.
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Need help my 5 year old has been diagnosed with secondary trimethylaminuria, she gets a smell on her breath?
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Need help my 5 year old has been diagnosed with secondary trimethylaminuria, she gets a smell on her breath?
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in Philadelphia found that 118 of 353 people who complained of bad body odor had trimethylaminuria - a metabolic disorder caused by a mutation in a single gene, FMO3.
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Also called fish odor syndrome.
February 11, 2012