TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Abdelhamid Elsayed Mohamed AU - Adel Ali Kheir Eldin , AU - Laila Kamal Effatt , TI - Molecular characterization of phenylketonuria mutation patterns in Egyptian patients / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Abdelhamid Elsayed Mohamed , KW - Molecular characterization KW - Phenylalanine hydroxylase gene KW - Phenylketonuria N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Pharmacy - Department of Biochemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - The present study was designed to analyze the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene in 50 unrelated patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) to characterize the different mutations and polymorphisms that delineate the molecular genetic background of the disease in Egypt. It also aimed at providing a simple and cost - effective method for detecting the R176X mutation in exon 6. DNA was extracted from all patients using a standard procedure UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -