tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)-deficient hyperphenylalaninemia

Summary

tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)-deficient hyperphenylalaninemia (MONDO:0850519) is a disease. A subtype of inborn disorder of amino acid metabolism — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)-deficient hyperphenylalaninemia
Mondo ID	MONDO:0850519
DOID	DOID:0081132
GARD	0026632
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Disease family

This is a subtype of inborn disorder of amino acid metabolism. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of genetic or genomic mechanism › hereditary disease › inborn errors of metabolism › inborn disorder of amino acid and other organic acid metabolism › inborn disorder of amino acid metabolism › tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)-deficient hyperphenylalaninemia

Related subtypes (32): disorder of methionine catabolism, inborn serine deficiency, cerebral creatine deficiency syndrome, inborn organic aciduria, gamma-amino butyric acid metabolism disorder, homocystinuria, urea cycle disorder, adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency, systemic primary carnitine deficiency disease, cystathioninuria, hyperlysinemia, Brunner syndrome, glycine encephalopathy, aminoacylase 1 deficiency, adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency, hyperphenylalaninemia due to tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency, inborn disorder of tryptophan metabolism, inborn disorder of proline metabolism, inborn disorder of ornithine metabolism, inborn disorder of amino acid transport, inborn disorder of histidine metabolism, inborn disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, inborn disorder of branched-chain amino acid metabolism, arakawa syndrome 2, 2-methylacetoacetyl CoA thiolase deficiency, albinism, hyperphenylalaninemia due to DNAJC12 deficiency, inborn disorder of the metabolism of sulfur-containing amino acids and hydrogen sulfide, inborn disorder of glycine and serine metabolism, inborn disorder of ornithine, proline and hydroxyproline metabolism, inborn disorder of glutamate/glutamine and aspartate/asparagine metabolism, hyperglycinemia, transient neonatal

Genetics & variants

GWAS landscape

No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.

Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers

No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.

Genes & proteins

No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).

Function

No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.

Therapeutics

No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.