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[Prevalence of frequent recessive diseases in the Spanish population through DNA analyses on samples from the neonatal screening].
Medicina clinica - 15 Oct 2005
Ezquieta Begoña, Ruano Miguel L F, Dulín Elena, Arnao Dolores R, Rodríguez Amparo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cystic fibrosis (CF) and the nonclassical forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NC21OHD) are frequent autosomal recessive diseases. Their frequencies in the Caucasian population are the ones applied to the management of the diseases (1:2500 and 1:1000, respectively). The aim of this study was to learn about the adequacy of these figures to the Spanish population. MATERIAL AND METHOD:...
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