History of Phenylketonuria

	Revision 3 . . October 4, 2001 8:30 am by (logged).98.151.xxx [checked, enzyme is right; how many children havephenylketonuria ?]
	Revision 2 . . (edit) May 22, 2001 8:59 pm by Malcolm Farmer

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Phenylketonuria is a human genetic disease found in about 1 in 100 000 births, and is caused by a faulty gene for the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase.

Phenylketonuria is a human genetic disease found in about 1 in 100 000 births, and is caused by a faulty gene for the enzyme [phenylalanine hydroxylase]? (PAH).

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Need to check if that's the right enzyme...

1 in 100k ? http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/P/Phenylketonuria.html says 1 in 10k (US). I also heard figures between these two. Could somebody check correct figures (which will vary from place to place) ?