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Thank you to Cindy Freehauf of Children’s Hospital of Colorado for her contributions to this chapter’s content in the 1st Edition of Nutrition Management of Inherited Metabolic Diseases.

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Kierstein, J. (2022). Introduction to Genetics. In: Bernstein, L.E., Rohr, F., van Calcar, S. (eds) Nutrition Management of Inherited Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94510-7_1

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