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Guess who's BCKDK (this is BCKDK, or at least its structure). Image by Wikipedia user Emw.

Speaking of awkward acronyms: BCKDK.
It's branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase kinase, an enzyme critical to amino acid metabolism in humans. Defects in BCKDK are linked with some forms of autism.

A single residue change appears to confer the disease phenotype.
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J. Harry Caufield

Harry Caufield is a researcher at UCLA developing ways to better understand biomedical text and literature as a data resource. He is interested in information extraction, natural language processing, machine learning, protein-protein interactions, cardiovascular health, and the microbial world. He also appreciates computational creativity and generative methods.

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