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Genetics and pulmonary medicine bullet 6: Immotile cilia syndrome: past, present, and prospects for the future
1 Oct 1998
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The existence of a genetic disease caused by immotile cilia was reported in a short paper published in 1976.1 The prevalence was estimated to be one person in about 30 000. The following facts made it possible to draw these conclusions. Cilia from the lung, nose, or elsewhere have a structure that is highly conservative and, moreover, resembles that of the sperm flagellum. The central part of the sperm tail, its...
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