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The phenylalanine hydroxylase locus: a marker for the history of phenylketonuria and human genetic diversity. PAH Mutation Analysis Consortium.
Ciba Foundation symposium - 1 Jan 1996
Scriver C R, Byck S, Prevost L, Hoang L
Abstract excerpt
Disease-producing allelic variation describes one aspect of human genetic diversity. Phenylketonuria, the major type of hyperphenylalaninaemia and formerly a functional genetic lethal, has a 2% carrier frequency in temperate-zone populations. Newborn screening for hyperphenylalaninaemia (incidence of 1 in 10000) has made it one of the most widely ascertained human Mendelian traits; 99% of hyperphenylalaninaemia...
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