“…Studies in vitro with expressed FMO enzymes have shown FMO3 to be selective in the Noxygenation of trimethylamine (Lang et al, 1998). A number of allelic variants have been associated with the incidence and severity of TMAU in patients (Zhang et al, 1996Cashman et al, 1997Cashman et al, , 2000Cashman et al, , 2001Cashman et al, , 2003Dolphin et al, 1997;Kang et al, 2000;Murphy et al, 2000;Forrest et al, 2001;Cashman, 2002;Cashman & Zhang, 2002;Park et al, 2002;Hernandez et al, 2003;Lattard et al, 2003aLattard et al, , 2003b. These individuals can be diagnosed by urinary ratios of trimethylamine N-oxide to trimethylamine following a challenge dose of choline.…”