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    Intake is often low due to lack of dairy products in diet.

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    These metabolites accumulate but concentrations are not necessarily related to patient outcome.

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  1. Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver – Anschutz Medical Campus, 13123 East 16th Avenue, 153, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA

    Laurie E. Bernstein MS, RD, FADA, FAND

  2. Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and Graduate Programs in Human Nutrition, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, OR, 97239-3098, USA

    Sandy van Calcar PhD, RDN, LDN

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    Laurie E. Bernstein

  2. Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Fran Rohr

  3. Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, University of Colorado Denver, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA

    Joanna R. Helm

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Bernstein, L.E., van Calcar, S. (2015). The Diet for Galactosemia. In: Bernstein, L., Rohr, F., Helm, J. (eds) Nutrition Management of Inherited Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14621-8_25

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