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recessive
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Understanding Phenylketonuria: A Recessive Genetic Disease
This inherited metabolic disorder involves the body's inability to properly process the amino acid phenylalanine. Due to a mutation in the gene encoding the...
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Understanding PKU: A Recessive Genetic Disorder
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inherited metabolic disorder. Individuals with this condition lack a necessary enzyme that breaks down phenylalanine, an amino acid...