1. UNRECOGNIZED MATERNAL BIOCHEMICAL DISEASE: AN UNCOMMON CAUSE OF MENTAL RETARDATION IN CHILDREN.
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Perry, T. L., Bunting, Rosamund, Tischler, Bluma, Hansen, Shirley, Diamond, Sheila, and Weppler, V. Carroll
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INTELLECTUAL disabilities ,DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities ,PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities ,CYSTINURIA ,BRAIN diseases ,CARBOHYDRATE intolerance ,RENAL tubular transport disorders - Abstract
The article focuses on a maternal biochemical disease as a cause of mental retardation in children. Some persons with genetically determined biochemical diseases, which usually cause mental deficiency, escape brain damage, even though they have received no specific treatment, and they reach adult life with normal intelligence and reasonable general health. Examinations of urine specimens of the 152 mothers of mental retardates showed that one woman had diabetes mellitus, and that 3 were heterozygotes for cystinuria, types II or III. The findings of the article suggest that unexplained mental retardation in children is rarely due to maternal biochemical diseases.
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- 1970
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