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Cystic fibrosis in 65- and 67-year-old siblings. Clinical feature and nasal potential difference measurement in patients with genotypes F508del and 2789+5G-->A.
Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases - 1 Jan 2006
Mainz J, Hammer U, Rokahr C, Hubler A, Zintl F, Ballmann M
Abstract excerpt
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive genetic disease caused by defects of the cystic fibrosis trans-membrane regulator (CFTR) gene with a median survival of less than 35 years. This work reports on the oldest living German siblings with CF. Besides clinical history, CF genotype and nasal potential difference (NPD) measurement results, the remarkably high exercise activity of the siblings is discussed as a...
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