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Successful Linkage Analysis in Classical Phenylketonuria Families Followed by Direct Sequencing and Mutation Detection.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jan 2016
Silawi Mohammad, Haqparast Somayyeh, Tabei Seyed Mohammad Bagher
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BACKGROUND: Phenylketonuria (PKU) is the most common disorder of inborn errors of metabolism. Prevalence of PKU is about 1:10000 live births; however, due to high rate of consanguinity in the Middle East and North of Africa the prevalence of PKU is more than in other areas. It is estimated between 1:2600 in Turkey and 1:3672 in Iran. The best way to identify carriers in PKU families is studying causative...
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