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Editors: G. E. W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor. Price, $9.50. Pp. 347, with 60 illustrations. Little, Brown & Company, 34 Beacon St., Boston, 1959.

Victor A. McKusick, M.D., Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1960;106(5):743-744.

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Biochemical genetics, which is currently enjoying great interest and activity, had its origins with a physician, Sir Archibald Garrod, whose studies of alkaptonuria led him to the inspired concept of "inborn errors of metabolism." Biochemical genetics is today conceived in much broader scope than merely Garrodian blocks in intermediary metabolism and encompasses essentially all work which attempts to reduce genetic phenomena, normal and abnormal, to the molecular level.

Recently we have been privileged with at least one superb monograph on this subject (Harris, H.: Human Biochemical Genetics. Cambridge University Press, 1959) and by the published symposium which is the primary object of this review.

The Ciba Foundation Symposium on biochemical genetics in man was held in Naples in May, 1959. The proceedings have been published with expedition which is particularly desirable in this rapidly developing field.

Herman M. Kalckar (Johns Hopkins), using his studies of galactosemia as an example, illustrated . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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