How many people in the U.S. suffer from Phenylketonuria (PKU)?

I'm not exactly sure, but according to wikipedia an average of 1 in 15,000 people have it going by this statistic it would be 20,000 in the US. But other countires have highly different rate-1 in 100,000 in finland to 1 in 4,500 in Ireland

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