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Organic acidemias: Inherited metabolic disorders where the body cannot properly break down certain proteins and fats, leading to a buildup of organic acids.

The Rare Organic Acidemias Research Consortium (ROAR) is part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and led by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) through its Division of Rare Diseases Research Innovation (DRDRI). ROAR is funded under grant number U54HD121579 as a collaboration between NCATS, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). This website is hosted by the network’s Data Management and Coordinating Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, which is funded by NCATS and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under grant number TR002818. The content of this website is solely the responsibility of the ROAR administrative coordinating center at the Baylor College of Medicine and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.