Modern genetics answers age-old question on Garrod's fourth inborn error of metabolism
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
Fifty years after participating in studies of pentosuria, an inherited disorder once mistaken for diabetes, 15 families again welcomed medical geneticists into their lives. Their willingness to have their DNA analyzed with advanced genomics technologies has solved a mystery more than a hundred years old.