The cystic fibrosis heterozygote--advantage in surviving cholera?

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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal genetic disorder of caucasians. While it has been hypothesized that there is a CF heterozygote advantage which allowed the gene to achieve such high prevalence, the nature of that advantage remains a mystery. The recent identification and sequencing of the CF gene has increased the probability that the CF heterozygote advantage will be discovered. In this hypothesis...

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