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Clinical Aspects of Inborn Errors of Metabolism

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The inborn errors of metabolism have caught the imagination of physicians and scientists due to their promise of insights into the mechanisms of both the pathogenesis of genetic disease and gene action itself. The etiologic agent of these disorders is the mutant gene. In this Symposium, attention is focused chiefly upon the mechanism by which the mutant gene produces clinical manifestations.

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Carnevale, A. (1988). Clinical Aspects of Inborn Errors of Metabolism. In: Cañedo, L.E., Todd, L.E., Packer, L., Jaz, J. (eds) Cell Function and Disease. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0813-3_7

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