“…A paternal cousin of this by mental retardation, iridodonesis, ectopia lentis, sei-patient, who was mentally normal but had homocystinzures, thrombo-embolic tendency, skeletal abnormal-uria, had cystathionine synthetase activity approximaities such as osteoporosis, dolichostenomelia and arachtely 10 % of that normally found in the liver [5]. It was nodactyly [3,23]. Intimal ridges were found in large also demonstrated that the brain of a homocystinuric and medium arteries resulting from fibrous thickening patient was deficient in cystathionine synthetase, but and fragmentation of elastic tissue in the vessel walls.…”