Article
Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens. A primarily genital form of cystic fibrosis.
JAMA - 1 Apr 1992
Anguiano A, Oates R D, Amos J A, Dean M, Gerrard B, Stewart C, Maher T A, White M B, Milunsky A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Almost all males with cystic fibrosis (CF) have absent vasa deferentia. It has been suggested that otherwise healthy males with congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD), previously considered a distinct genetic entity, have an increased frequency of CF gene mutations. T...
Topics
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Vas Deferens