Genetics Home Reference (GHR) provides free access to consumer-friendly information on medical genetics to patients and their family members, health care professionals, and the public. The site offers summaries for a broad range of inherited conditions or disorders caused by gene alterations. Each condition summary includes the causes, available genetic testing, and links to summaries on related genes. Descriptions of genes include gene names and their synonyms, normal function, chromosome location, and an explanation of any disorder-causing mutations. Additionally, GHR provides a genetics glossary, help on understanding genetics, and links to many useful consumer, support, and research organizations. GHR is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

The eMedicine point-of-care clinical reference features up-to-date, searchable, peer-reviewed medical articles organized in specialty-focused textbooks, and is continuously updated with practice-changing evidence culled daily from the medical literature.

Propionic acidemia is an inborn error of metabolism affecting approximately 1/50,000 newborns in the United States annually. Gene therapy research is being conducted at two major US institutions to provide better treatments and ultimatly a cure for this disorder. PA individuals cannot metabolize methionine, threonine, isoleucine and valine correctly. Current treatment consists of adhering to a rigorous low-protein diet and biotin and carnitine supplementation.

Information, Tools, and Resources to aid Primary Care Physicians in caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) and providing a Medical Home for all of their patients.

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