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Pharmacologic therapy for stop mutations: how much CFTR activity is enough?
27 Oct 2004
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to summarize the recent approaches using mutation-specific therapy to correct the genetic defect according to the molecular mechanism by which the mutation causes the defects in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Premature stop mutations (class I mutations) account for 5 to 10% of the total mutant alleles in cystic fibrosis patients, and in...
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