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. 1960 Nov;77(2):320–326. doi: 10.1042/bj0770320

An inborn defect in the metabolism of tyrosine in infants on a normal diet

Hazel R Bloxam 1, M G Day 1, Nancy K Gibbs 1, L I Woolf 1
PMCID: PMC1204987  PMID: 16748849

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