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[Towards an improved antenatal screening for cystic fibrosis].
Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique - 1 Apr 2003
Serre J-L, Feingold J, Simon-Bouy B, Muller F
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BACKGROUND: Cystic Fibrosis is an autosomal and recessive lethal disease which affects in France one newborn in 3.000. New technologies may afford quite a cheap and efficient screening for a large set of mutations within the same assay in order to test their presence or absence. These procedures are very valuable for prenatal diagnosis for further pregnancies when couples at risk have been identified through a...
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