Think classical homocystinuria if the genetic test did not confirm Marfan syndrome: Late diagnosis and phenotypic variability in adult siblings with classical homocystinuria
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Abstract
Classical homocystinuria is an inherited metabolic disease of homocysteine metabolism due to biallelic pathogenic variants in CBS . The biochemical hallmark is elevated homocysteine and methionine levels. The treatment consists of betaine supplementation and protein restricted diet. We report two adult siblings with late diagnosis of classical homocystinuria, a variable phenotype and good response to the treatment. Patient 1 is a 29-year-old female with a history of myopia, Marfanoid habitus with significant kyphoscoliosis, anxiety and a psychotic episode. Clinical exome sequencing identified compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in CBS (c.209+1G>A; c.992C>T (p.Ala331Val)). She had markedly elevated homocysteine (298 μmol/L) and methionine (1040 μmol/L) levels. Her brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy revealed a low n -acetyl-aspartic acid peak. She was started on betaine supplementation, and a protein-restricted diet (0.8 g/kg/day) leading to significant decrease in her homocysteine (37 μmol/L) and methionine (49 μmol/L) levels. Patient 2 is a 27-year-old female (younger sibling) with a history of anxiety, one generalized tonic-clonic seizure and a dural sinus thrombosis in neuroimaging. She had both familial CBS variants and markedly elevated homocysteine (152 μmol/L) and methionine (560 μmol/L) levels, which were improved significantly on betaine supplementation and the protein-restricted diet. Both siblings had average range intellectual abilities. Higher homocysteine levels may result in severe skeletal, and central nervous system phenotypes.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".