HubHip: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Nutrition and Metabolism Disorders: Inherited: Maple Syrup Urine Disease (10)

   Maple Syrup Urine Disease

• Newborn Screening Program (Site) - Describes the Illinois newborn screening for MSUD, performed using tandem mass spectrometry.
• MSUD Family Support (Site) - Information about MSUD in English and Spanish, a list of contacts and an occasional newsletter.
• MSUD Research Foundation (Site) - A non-profit organization promoting research of MSUD, to ensure all families have the technology, services, education and treatment available to detect and manage of MSUD.
• Newborn Screening (Site) - Explains the inheritance mechanism for recessive conditions such as MSUD.
• MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Maple Syrup Urine Disease (Site) - Summarizes the causes, symptoms, treatment and prognosis of MSUD.
• Maple Syrup Urine Disease (Site) - The American Chemical Society describes the lack of progress in understanding the pathology of MSUD.
• eMedicine - MSUD (Site) - Details some of the chemistry behind MSUD, and treatments.
• NewbornScreening (Site) - Recommended best practice for screening of newborns for MSUD.
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: MSUD (Site) - Details of the genetic faults behind MSUD, with references.
• GeneReviews: Maple Syrup Urine Disease (Site) - Precise information on testing for being a carrier of MSUD.