Preface to Short Communications

Abstract

This issue is devoted to short communications based on oral and poster presentations at the free sessions of the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism held in Newcastle upon Tyne, 5–8 September 1984. Most of the communications selected for oral presentation were related to the main topics of the symposium but recent advances in many other aspects of the study of inherited metabolic disease were presented in the large display of posters which, following the trend of recent years, was an important feature of the meeting. Those presentations not reported elsewhere in this issue are listed below. Many of the short communications were submitted for the Noel Raine Award which commemorates the founding editor of the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. This year the prize was awarded to S. K. Wadman, R. Berger, M. Duran, P. K. de Bree, S. A. Stoker de Vries, F. A. Beemer, J. J. Weits-Binnerts, T. J. Penders and J. K. van der Woude for their paper ‘Dihydropyrimidme dehydrogenase deficiency leading to thymine-uraciluria. An inborn error of pyrimidine metabolism’.