• DOI:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1975.tb00635.x
Corpus ID: 970755

Phenylketonuria as a balanced polymorphism: the nature of the heterozygote advantage

@article{Woolf1975PhenylketonuriaAA,
  title={Phenylketonuria as a balanced polymorphism: the nature of the heterozygote advantage},
  author={L. Woolf and M. McBean and F. Woolf and S. Cahalanf},
  journal={Annals of Human Genetics},
  year={1975},
  volume={38}
}

L. Woolf, M. McBean, +1 author S. Cahalanf

Published 1975

Biology, Medicine

Annals of Human Genetics

Mothers of children with phenylketonuria have a significantly lower miscarriage rate than a matched control population in Ireland and west Scotland. This protective effect of the gene against some factor causing foetal death would seem to constitute a heterozygote advantage which might account for the previously observed polymorphism for phenylketonuria. It is suggested that the decrease in foetal mortality is mediated by the higher concentration of phenylalanine in the heterozygous mother's… CONTINUE READING

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