Talk:Alkaptonuria

Sourcing and recent developments
is a recent overview, published in reaction to the linkage to the gene. Nitisinone, more commonly studied for hereditary tyrosinemia type I, is apparently being studied in this disease, see. JFW | T@lk  23:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

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If anyone is watching
I'm wondering if this shouldn't go for GA. JFW | T@lk  10:36, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

merge w/ ochronosis
It is my understanding that these two are the same thing. If so, why don't we merge them? If not, please tell me how they are different. Thanks, --Brendan19 (talk) 00:41, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


 * No, see the ochronosis article. There are other (exogenous) causes. JFW &#124; T@lk  10:04, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Updating
10.1136/jclinpath-2012-200877 is a review by the main UK expert team in Liverpool. Might be useful considering the article is currently weak in terms of sources. JFW &#124; T@lk  22:01, 10 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 10.1007/s10545-011-9363-z - molecular genetics.
 * 10.1186/1471-2415-14-12 - ocular findings systematically reviewed
 * 10.1007/s10545-008-0984-9 - historical review at 100th anniversary of Garrod's lecture
 * 10.1201/b15310-17 - chapter in Atlas of Inherited Metabolic Diseases 3E ISBN 978-1-4441-1225-2
 * 10.1016/B978-0-12-374984-0.00030-9 - entry in Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics ISBN 978-0-08-096156-9
 * 10.1111/pcmr.12235 - biology of hyperpigmentation syndromes (small mention)
 * 10.1007/s00296-004-0498-1 - older review (2005)
 * Will list more if I find anything. JFW &#124; T@lk  10:59, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Mummy
From the article:


 * A 1977 study showed that an ochronotic Egyptian mummy had probably suffered from alkaptonuria.

Fascinating, but I would prefer a secondary source, particularly because this is 37 years ago. JFW &#124; T@lk  12:32, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

History
This 1968 article from the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde has a lot of historical context (link):
 * Not much about ochronosis as such
 * "Scribonius" in 1548 wrote in "De Inspectione Urinatum" something about brown discoloration of urine after exposure to air
 * Boedeker in 1859 wrote about a reducing substance in someone with back pain and clinical features of ochronosis (full citation: Über das Alcapton; ein neuer Beitrag zur Frage: Welche Stoffe des Harns können Kupferreduction bewirken C Boedeker - Z Rat Med, 1859)
 * 1891 saw Wolkow and Baumann describe the chemical nature of homogentisic acid

It would be great to have a more recent source. JFW &#124; T@lk  09:40, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Garrod is fulltext here: http://www.unz.org/Pub/GarrodArchibald-1909
 * The text is fabulous; it looks like Virchow coined the term "ochronosis" but the link with alkaptonuria was made later. JFW &#124; T@lk  09:49, 25 August 2014 (UTC)