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Analysis of the entire coding region of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator gene in idiopathic pancreatitis.
Human mutation - 1 Aug 2001
Castellani C, Gomez Lira M, Frulloni L, Delmarco A, Marzari M, Bonizzato A, Cavallini G, Pignatti P, Mastella G
Abstract excerpt
Many Cystic Fibrosis (CF) carriers have been detected testing some subjects with chronic pancreatitis for a limited number of mutations. The aim of this study was to find out if some subjects with pancreatitis and a CFTR mutation actually carry another, undetected mutation. We screened for 18 CFTR mutations plus the CFTR intron 8 poly(T) tract length a population of 67 patients suffering from idiopathic either...
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