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Table 1 Biochemical and genetic features of 11 neonatal GA1 patients

From: Biochemical and molecular features of Chinese patients with glutaric acidemia type 1 detected through newborn screening

Patient no. Gender Age at diagnosis (days) Newborn screening Recall Urine organic acids Genotypea
C5DC (µmol/L) C0 (µmol/L) C5DC (µmol/L) C0 (µmol/L) GA (mmol/mol creatinine) 3HGA (mmol/mol creatinine) Allele 1 Allele 2
1 F 22 2.67 13.50 2.47 15.06 150.49 9.88 c.532G>A (p.Gly178Arg) c.108_109delAC (p.Gln37Glufs*5)
2 F 20 1.45 18.32 1.50 41.12 503.79 23.36 c.533G>A (p.Gly178Glu) c.1244-2 A>Cb
3 F 18 2.81 13.95 3.68 10.87 300.15 30.98 c.1244-2 A>C c.1244-2 A > C
4 M 25 2.42 13.06  N/A N/A 409.05 36.34 c.1244-2 A>C c.1244-2 A>C
5 F 20 1.90 14.25 1.92 10.20 462.83 12.91 c.395G>A (p.Arg132Gln) c.1147 C>T (p.Arg383Cys)
6 F 21 3.79 13.33  N/A N/A N/A N/A c.1244-2 A>C c.1016T>C (p.Met339Thr)
7 F 44 0.06 3.18 0.05 7.69 1.31 2.50 c.1244-2 A>C c.1261G>A (p.Ala421Thr)
8 M 23 1.58 16.37 2.19 29.91 313.74 24.96 c.1244-2 A>C c.1244-2 A>C
9 M 28 4.26 9.66 3.34 4.99 741.81 65.23 c.1244-2 A>C c.1244-2 A>C
10 F 26 2.44 10.91 3.65 9.04 434.34 38.46 c.1244-2 A>C c.1261G>A (p.Ala421Thr)
11 F 30 0.68 19.51 0.70 20.62  N/A N/A c.300G>A (p.Met100Ile) c.1204 C>T (p.Arg402Trp)
  1. M: male, F: female, C5DC: glutarylcarnitine; C0: free carnitine, GA: glutaric acid, 3HGA: 3-hydroxyglutaric acid, N/A: not available. Reference range, C5DC: 0.03–0.3 µmol/L, C0: 8.5–50 µmol/L, GA: < 2.5 mmol/mol creatinine, 3HGA:  <4.6 mmol/mol creatinine
  2. aThe novel variants identified by our team are in boldface type
  3. bThe c.1244-2 A>C splice site variant destroys the canonical splice acceptor site in intron 11 of the GCDH gene, and is expected to cause aberrant splicing