Phenylketonuria correspondence

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 155/3/3/77/8
• Dates of Creation:17 Jan 1957-26 Apr 1966
• Physical Description:
  66 pages

• Scope and Content

  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 (conerning 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.

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• Personal Names

  Blainey, J D, fl 1960s-1980s, nephrologist,

  Brown, Helen Lang, fl 1950s,

  Cowie, Valerie A, 1924-, developmental psychologist,

  Gore, Charles P, 1916-, psychiatrist,

  Holton, J B, 1932-2009, physician,

  Lawler, Sylvia Dorothy, 1922-1996, human geneticist,

  Lippman, Dr Richard W, fl 1950s, physician,

  Moureau, P, fl 1950s,

  Pratt, R T C, 1917-1983, physician,

  Sanger, Dr Ruth Anne, 1918-2001, haematologist,

  Thorogood, Douglas, fl 1950s,

  Woolf, Louis I, fl 1950s-1990s, biochemist,

• Corporate Names

  Allen&Hanburys Ltd, Manufacturing Chemists,

  American Journal of Human Genetics,