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Population-based estimates of surfactant protein B deficiency.
Pediatrics - 1 Mar 2000
Cole F S, Hamvas A, Rubinstein P, King E, Trusgnich M, Nogee L M, deMello D E, Colten H R
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OBJECTIVE: Surfactant protein B deficiency is a lethal cause of respiratory distress in infancy that results most commonly from a homozygous frameshift mutation (121ins2). Using independent clinical ascertainment and molecular methods in different populations, we sought to determine allele frequency. STUDY DESIGN: Using clinical characteristics of the phenotype of affected infants, we screened the Missouri linked...
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