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Accumulation of homogentisic acid causes dark brown discoloration of the skin and eyes (ochronosis) and progressive damage to the joints, especially of the spine. The gene responsible for the condition is recessive, so that a child is affected only if both parents are carriers of the defective gene.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inherited metabolic disorder. Alcaptonurics excrete excessive amounts of homogentisic acid (alcapton) in the urine. A rare genetic disease in which homogentisic acid (a metabolite of phenylalanine and tyrosine) accumulates because of a mutation in the gene for homogentisic acid oxidase. Congenital absence of an enzyme, homogentisic acid oxidase, that is essential for the normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alcaptonuria - Definition of Alcaptonuria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An inherited metabolic disorder. 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