Overview of common inherited metabolic diseases in a Southern Chinese population of Hong Kong

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 313, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 195-201

  Tang, Nelson L S ^a   Hui, Joannie ^a   Law, L K ^a   To, K F ^a   Mak, T W L ^b   Cheung, K L ^a   Vreken, Peter ^c   Wanders, Ronald J A ^c   Fok, T F ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b TUEN MUN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACIDURIA; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISORDERS OF AMINO ACID AND PROTEIN METABOLISM; GALACTOSEMIA; GENE MUTATION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

FATTY ACIDS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 0034749034     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(01)00673-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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