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A case of Menkes syndrome with pyloric stenosis: An effect of copper deficiency on NOS1?

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Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

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  1. Department of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    S. Cunningham

  2. Department of Paediatric Biochemistry, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK

    P. M. Crofton

  3. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK

    T. G. Marshall

  4. South East Scotland Clinical Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

    D. R. Fitzpatrick

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Cunningham, S., Crofton, P.M., Marshall, T.G. et al. A case of Menkes syndrome with pyloric stenosis: An effect of copper deficiency on NOS1?. J Inherit Metab Dis 22, 197–198 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005487027838

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