:: The experiment would be done if there were a person with a metabolic defect who could not metabolize such fats, and who had to have a special diet or die from such a disease, along the lines of " Lorenzo's Oil " . talk ) 22 : 27, 22 September 2013 ( UTC)
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In 1957, as a pediatric neurology fellow ( with a research budget of $ 35 ), he encountered another case of maple syrup urine disease and was able to identify branched chain keto acids in the urine samples . and the metabolic defect would be identified as an X-linked recessive error in copper transport.
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The first hint of vascular trouble resulting from high homocysteine levels came in 1969, when Dr . Kilmer S . McCully, now a pathologist at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Providence, R . I ., reported finding arterial disease in an infant who had died from a rare metabolic defect that resulted in very high levels of homocysteine.
