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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the late Distinguished Professor Stephen Goodman of the University of Colorado for his dedication to the diagnosis and treatment of GA-1 and his mentorship to many in the field of metabolism. We are also grateful to Daryl Goodman and Susana San Roman, as well as the members of the Goodman Biochemical Laboratory, for their previous retrospective analysis of metabolites in individuals with GA-1.

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Coughlin, C.R. (2022). Glutaric Acidemia Type I: Diagnosis and Management. In: Bernstein, L.E., Rohr, F., van Calcar, S. (eds) Nutrition Management of Inherited Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94510-7_19

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