Table of Contents:
  • Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) defects
  • FAO biochemical pathways
  • FAO defects
  • Diagnosis of FAO defects
  • Newborn screening for FAO defects, especially medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency
  • Diagnostic genetic analysis for MCAD gene variations
  • Expression studies of variant MCAD proteins in E.coli
  • Protein misfolding as a pathogenic mechanism in MCAD deficiency