Whatever happened to PKU?

doi:10.1016/0009-9120(94)00076-8

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Whatever happened to PKU?

Clinical biochemistry - 1 Apr 1995

Scriver C R

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The history of PKU is one of science in the discovery of an inborn error of metabolism and a chemical cause of mental retardation; and also one of technology with the development of methods to prevent disease. PKU is the classic example of success in the prevention of a genetic disease. Meanwhile...

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Female
Genetic Heterogeneity
History, 20th Century
Humans
Male
Mutation
Phenylketonurias

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