Genetic studies in mental subnormality.

Date:
1973
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR PART ONE I am most grateful to the Superintendents of the hospitals for the mentally subnormal, the Medical Officers of Health and their staff and the general practitioners in the area of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board who kindly referred their patients and enabled me to carry out the investigations. Thanks are also due to Dr. L. I. Woolf (formerly Medical Research Council Scientific Worker in the Department of the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford) who analysed urine specimens for aminoacidurias and Dr. R. Sanger, Medical Research Council, Blood Group Research Unit, London, who carried out Xg blood grouping. The late Professor L. S. Penrose kindly allowed me to look at the records of one of his families. I am also indebted to Miss R. Mason and Miss K. Major for their help in visiting the patients and their families, Mr. M. W. Oakes for statistical advice, Mrs. J. Withers, Miss A. Holbutt, Mr. G. Clarke and Mr. C. Patel for technical assistance. I wish to thank Mrs. E. Harris for typing the manuscript. Finally, I would like to thank all the families for their help and co-operation. This paper represents part of a M.D. thesis accepted by the Queen's University of Belfast. It was submitted for publication in 1970. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR PART TWO We are grateful to the medical and nursing staff of Leyboume Grange Hospital for their co¬ operation over several years, and especially to Dr. J.J. Ryan and Dr. D. Bone for their continued interest and assistance; to Dr. J. H. Carter who performed most of the routine biochemical estimations; to Dr. J. L. Hamerton for the chromosome studies; to Dr. W. A. Kennedy for electro-encephalography. We are also grateful to Dr. J. Fraser Roberts, Dr. L C. K. Mackenzie, Professor P. E. Polani, Dr. P. Robson and Dr. P. G. Wallis for discussions and consultations; to Mr. J. Harvey and Mrs. V. Young for technical assistance with amino-acid analyses. This project was supported by the S.E. Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, the Spastics Society and voluntary subscriptions. X