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NYHAN, William Leo (1926 – )

1926 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1964 CE

#14197

A familial disorder of uric acid metabolism and central nervous system dysfunction.

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a rare inherited disorder that affects about 1 in 380,000 live births. In their summary the authors described this as a new "syndrome consisting of hyperuricemia, mental retardation, choreoatheto…