Mendelian Genetics
Incomplete Dominance
Inheritance of Human Blood Types
Sex-Linked Inheritance
Pedigrees
Human Genetic Disorders
Hemophilia
Cystic Fibrosis
PKU
Phenylketonuria is an inherited metabolic disorder caused by an enzyme deficiency resulting in accumulation of phenylalanine and its metabolites in the blood causing usually severe mental retardation and seizures unless phenylalanine is restricted from the diet beginning at birth —abbreviation PKU.
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