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Komrower Lecture: Galactosaemia today: The enigma and the challenge

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Segal, S. Komrower Lecture: Galactosaemia today: The enigma and the challenge. J Inherit Metab Dis 21, 455–471 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005402618384

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