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A clinical guide to inherited metabolic diseases
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Edited by J T R Clarke. Cambridge University Press, 2006, softcover, pp 323, £40 (US$75 (approx.), €60 (approx.)), ISBN 0521614996
“Inherited” and “metabolic diseases”—two phrases that send chills down the spine of a junior doctor. These two words represent endless hours one spent learning all about the mutations, the enzymes and co-enzymes, the substrate deficiencies, and all those complex biochemical reactions in medical school, and still failed to grasp the complexity of the problem.
In this book, …