Present newborn screening for phenylketo
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Dougherty, Frances E. ;Levy, Harvey L.
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Newborn screening for phenylketonuria (PKU) began in the United States in the early 1960s following development of the Guthrie bacterial inhibition assay that allowed for the easy, rapid screening of elevated blood phenylalanine levels collected on newborn filter paper samples. Since that time, a nu