Question

Inborn errors of carbohydrate metabolism galactosemia

Answer 1

• Galactosemia, the inability to metabolize galactose in liver cells, is the most common monogenic disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, affecting 1 in every 55,000 newborns. ... Galactosemia is caused by mutations in the gene that makes the enzyme galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase.