Article
Child health, the genome project and phenylketonuria.
The Turkish journal of pediatrics - 1 Jan 2000
Scriver C R
Abstract excerpt
Child health and life expectancy improved together in many societies in the 20th century. As the incidence of diseases with major extrinsic causes declined, the heritability of disease as a whole increased. Accordingly, the genetic (intrinsic) causes of disease have become important. The genome p...
Topics
- Animals
- Child
- Child Welfare
- DNA
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Gene Frequency
- Genome, Human
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Human Genome Project
- Humans
- Intellectual Disability
- Life Expectancy
- Phenotype
- Phenylalanine Hydroxylase
- Phenylketonurias
- RNA