Garrod's tetrad explained

In medicine, Garrod's tetrad is a term named for British physician Archibald Garrod, who introduced the phrase "inborn errors of metabolism" in a lecture in 1908.^[1]

The tetrad comprises four inherited metabolic diseases: albinism, alkaptonuria, cystinuria, and pentosuria.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Archibald E. Garrod. Inborn Errors of Metabolism: The Croonian Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1908
2. Book: Vasudevan. D. M.. MD. DM Vasudevan MD FAMS FRCPath, S Sreekumari MD & Vaidyanathan Kannan. Textbook of Biochemistry for Medical Students. 2010. JP Medical Ltd. 978-9350250167. 208.