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USA survey for anyone who wants to improve Denver TMAU test

begun : Dec22
end : no ending for now

A trainee genetic counselor is working at the Denver TMAU test lab. Probably as part of her training. As a project she wishes feedback on any aspect of the Denver TMAU test and process. You can fill in the survey and/or email her (email address is in survey). It's meant for USA people, but perhaps others can give their view too (as we have so few opportunities).

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"Hello all! I wanted to make you aware of a research study being conducted to better understand the experience and needs of individuals with trimethylaminuria with a goal of being able to create improved patient and healthcare provider education materials. Any participation is completely voluntary and all responses remain confidential. Feel free to use the contact information within the link with any questions or share the survey with others with TMAU."

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

A UK volunteer does the TMAU urine test twice and gets different outcomes

TMAU urine test results of a UK volunteer


Jan 2009Sep 2009Ref. range
Urine creatinine5.5
4.0

Trimethylamine(TMA)56.8
32.1
2.5 - 10.9
TMA-n-Oxide719.3
78.0
17.0 -147.0
TMA/TMA-n-Oxide0.08
0.41
0.05-0.21

  • The first sample taken in January 2009 was done with a choline food load and while directly pre-menstrual.
  • The second sample taken in September 2009 was done WITHOUT a choline load and while NOT pre-menstrual.
  • The tester had been following the low-choline diet between the two tests.
  • The conclusions were 'secondary TMAU' in the first test, and 'primary TMAU' in the 2nd
  • This tester is now having the gene blood test done this week. Results will be forthcoming and posted in this blog.
  • Note : TMA is trimethylamine. Trimethylamine-n-oxide is the odorless metabolised end product. It is known as TMO or TMAO or TMA-n-O
A member of our community has kindly given permission to post her TMAU results in the blog in order to promote discussion on the current test protocol in various countries (there is no international agreed standard). These results are from the UK, and so from Sheffield Hospital, which is the only clinical tester in the UK. The parameters used were described by the tester Nigel Manning in a previous post:
TMA is regarded as normal if the concentration is below 11 micromoles per millimole of creatinine. TMA-oxide’s normal range is below 147 and the ratio of TMA to TMO is normal below 0.21.
SecondaryTMAU is a very broad term, but essentially relates to any TMAU where normal TMA oxidation appears to be indicated. Increased TMA and TMO are usually markers for TMAU2...

Nigel Manning TMAU interview
In simpler terms, Primary TMAU is a reflection of a subnormal level of conversion of TMA to TMA-n-oxide ( lower than normal TMA-n-oxide production is representative of Primary TMAU). Regardless of the TMAO level, Secondary TMAU is deemed as an excessive level of TMA even if the TMA/TMAO ration is within normal limits.

In this case, while taking high choline foods, the first test shows a very high level of TMA, but her FMO3 enzyme was able to oxidize the vast majority of it, and therefore, the ratio was very low/normal. Nevertheless, the TMA present was well beyond the 'normal' range, so she was deemed as having 'Secondary TMAU' as a result.

To further confuse things, Nigel Manning mentions that he has seen cases where someone diagnosed with 'primary TMAU' (including genetic diagnosis) can later be shown to have normal levels of TMA-oxide in a later test (this should be impossible if you have genetic primary TMAU). This seems to be what is shown here. Presumably it is unknown why this is (most likely due to lack of interest from the research community)
Quote from Nigel Manning:

SecondaryTMAU is a very broad term, but essentially relates to any TMAU where normal TMA oxidation appears to be indicated. Increased TMA and TMO are usually markers for TMAU2, however we have seen TMAU1 patients (with proven FMO3 enzyme deficiency by DNA mutation analysis) whose samples also showed this pattern – albeit only temporarily. This makes the differentiation between TMAU1 and TMAU2 difficult without more than one sample to assess and without DNA analysis to confirm a mutation for the FMO3 gene.
In general – if the TMA is consistently increased the patient has TMAU.

Interestingly, in the 2nd test results where the low choline diet had been followed, the outcome diagnosis based on the 'ratio' was 'Primary and Secondary TMAU'. Her TMA level was still too high (secondary TMAU) and her TMA-oxide level was still within normal range, but according to Nigel Manning's ratio she is deemed as not converting the TMA to TMAO to a 'normal' level.

It is unclear if this particular ratio is used elsewhere. There has been mention of a different ratio used in the USA, the percentage of free TMA in regards to the whole TMA and TMAO output : TMA / TMAO + TMA.

The paper by Phillips and Shephard that is used on the NIH website describes the ratio as :

Primary TMAU parameters:

Percent of total trimethylamine (TMA) (i.e., free TMA plus the non-odorous metabolite TMA N-oxide) excreted in the urine as unmetabolized free TMA
  • Severe trimethylaminuria: less than 40% of total TMA excreted as unmetabolized free TMA
  • Mild trimethylaminuria: 10%-39% of total TMA excreted as unmetabolized free TMA
  • Unaffected: 0%-9% of total TMA excreted as unmetabolized free TMA
NIH Trimethylaminuria explanation
It seems that whether using the percentage or Nigel Manning's ratio, both would have concluded roughly the same result here. Her percentages would have been 92.7% normal and 70.9%.

There is a pubmed paper that suggests menstruation could cause someone to be temporarily 'Primary TMAU', even if they are regarded only as a 'carrier' (of a FMO3 mutation). Perhaps the hormones have an inhibiting role on FMO3.
In comparison, three healthy control subjects that harbored heterozygous polymorphisms for [Glu158Lys; Glu308Gly] FMO3 or homozygous for wild FMO3 showed normal (> 90%) metabolic capacity, however, on days around menstruation the FMO3 metabolic capacity was decreased to ~60–70%.

Paper : Transient trimethylaminuria related to menstruation
In a citation paper done in 2008 regarding people who had been deemed 'primary TMAU' by the urine test, the citation went on to DNA test the 12 samples and only 4 were deemed 'genetically proven primary TMAU'.

In a set of our patients, two deleterious mutations were identified in 4/12 patients including a novel T237P sequence variant, while the majority of our patients (8/12) did not reveal any mutations. Some of the latter were double heterozygous for the E158K and E308G polymorphisms which could explain a mild phenotype while others had only the E158K variant which raised the question of undetected mutations. These results indicate that further experiments are needed to further delineate the full mutational spectrum of the FMO3 gene.

Genotypic spectrum and genotype-phenotype correlation of trimethylaminuria
Probably the only conclusion that can be currently made is that it is by no means a completely defined disorder and much more research is needed into trimethylaminuria. Those that can afford the test, it is perhaps best to do the urine test a few times to make sure, and the DNA test once.

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