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Phenylketonuria correspondence

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<p>Correspondence between Renwick and Dr Richard W Lippman, Dr Charles P Gore, Dr R T C Pratt, Dr Sylvia Dorothy Lawler (with linkage results), and Professor P Moureau (written in Fench). Also includes letters to Renwick from M E H Fitzgerald of the Biochemical Research Department at Allen & Hanburys Ltd (concerning their preparation of a large batch of phenylalanine decarboxylase which Renwick used to test for Phenylketonuria), J D Blainey, Douglas J Thorogood, Dr Valerie A Cowie, J B Holton, Dr Ruth Anne Sanger, Louis I Woolf, Helen Lang Brown. Mostly concerning Renwick's use of phenylalanine decarboxylase and publication of his paper titled  'Phenylketonuria: a linkage study using phenylalanine tolerance tests' in 1960.</p>

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