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Which Statement Does Not Support Garrod's Hypothesis That Inborn Errors

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Which statement does not support Garrod's hypothesis that inborn errors of metabolism cause disease?


A) The disease PKU is due to failure to produce a functional variant of an enzyme.
B) A blood disease is due to a recessive allele in a single gene.
C) A neurological disease is due to a dominant allele in a single gene.
D) Multiple genes contribute to the likelihood that a person will develop coronary heart disease.
E) Supplying a patient with a missing enzyme can alleviate the symptoms of a metabolic disease.

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