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Charles R. Scriver
Researcher at Montreal Children's Hospital
Publications - 361
Citations - 20744
Charles R. Scriver is an academic researcher from Montreal Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Phenylalanine hydroxylase. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 361 publications receiving 20353 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles R. Scriver include Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke & Université de Montréal.
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Committee on nutrition
Charles U. Lowe,David Baird Coursin,Felix P. Heald,Malcolm A. Holliday,Donough O'Brien,George M. Owen,Howard A. Pearson,Charles R. Scriver,L. J. Filer,O. L. Kline +9 more
TL;DR: This report draws attention to the lack of vitamin D in nonfat dry milk, a product used in significantly increasing amounts for preparing milk for home use for children, and possibly for infants.
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Phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency
TL;DR: The mainstay of treatment for hyperphenylalaninemia involves a low-protein diet and use of a phenylalanine-free medical formula and should commence as soon as possible after birth and should continue for life.
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Monogenic traits are not simple: lessons from phenylketonuria
TL;DR: Phenylketonuria is a classic 'monogenic' autosomal recessive disease in which mutation at the human PAH locus was deemed sufficient to explain the impaired function of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase, the attendant hyperphenylalaninemia and the resultant mental retardation.
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A rapid procedure for extracting genomic DNA from leukocytes
TL;DR: DNA fibres are transferred to a microcentrifuge tube containing 1 ml of 70% ethanol to wash the DNA and 2 volumes of ice cold ethanol to precipitate the DNA*.