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[Molecular epidemiology of cystic fibrosis in Tunisia].
Annales de biologie clinique - 1 Jan 2000
Messaoud T, Bel Haj Fredj S, Bibi A, Elion J, Férec C, Fattoum S
Abstract excerpt
Cystic fibrosis is the most frequent autosomal recessive genetic disease in North European population. This pathology seems to not be rare in Tunisia. On another hand, development of molecular biology techniques has largely contributed to implement the study of the different mutations in the CFTR gene where over 1,300 mutations were reported. Herein, we describe the strategy used to detect molecular defects...
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