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Early treatment prevents brain injury effectively. The present study aimed to detect the exact amino acid status of patients with hyperphenylalaninemia\u00a0before treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Data of 116 newborn patients from our Newborn Screening Center and 161 older patients from our clinic before treatment were collected. The content of 17 amino acids in their blood was determined by tandem mass spectrometry and compared with normal controls. Relationship between phenylalanine and other amino acids in patients was analyzed using the smoothing curve fitting and threshold effect analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Most amino acids in the blood of patients were within the normal range; however, they were different significantly from those of the normal children. Newborn patients showed higher phenylalanine (346.30 vs 45.90\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), valine (121.50 vs 110.30\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), citrulline, ornithine and lower tyrosine (52.97 vs 66.12\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), threonine (68.68 vs 78.21\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), glutamine levels than observed in normal newborns. Older patients showed significantly higher phenylalanine (844.00 vs 51.82\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), valine (117.60 vs 110.90\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), histidine, serine and lower tyrosine (55.97 vs 67.31\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), threonine (35.94 vs 51.89\u00a0\u00b5mol\/L), alanine, asparagine, glutamic acid, methionine, arginine, glycine, ornithine, glutamine content than found in matched normal children. Tyrosine, valine, ornithine, and threonine in newborn patients and tyrosine, glycine, glutamine, and threonine in older patients had a nonlinear correlation with phenylalanine levels with obvious threshold effect and clear inflection points.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Significant difference was observed in the amino acid status between pretherapeutic hyperphenylalaninemia patients and normal children. 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