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Demographics of the UK cystic fibrosis population: implications for neonatal screening.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Oct 2002
McCormick Jonathan, Green Michael W, Mehta Gita, Culross Frank, Mehta Anil
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The objective was to determine the composition of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Population attending specialist UK CF centres in terms of age, gender, age at diagnosis, genotype and ethnicity. With the planned introduction of the national CF screening programme in the UK, cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) mutations were compared between different ethnic groups enabling a UK-specific frequency of mutations...
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