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Carrier status for 3 most frequent CFTR mutations in Polish PCD/KS patients: lack of association with the primary ciliary dyskinesia phenotype.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Jan 2007
Skrzypczak Urszula, Rutkiewicz Ewa, Pogorzelski Andrzej, Witt Michał, Zietkiewicz Ewa
Abstract excerpt
We screened a large group of primary ciliary dyskinesia/Kartagener syndrome (PCD/KS) patients and their siblings (148 patients from 126 unrelated families) for the presence of the CFTR mutations that are most frequently found in the Polish population: the severe F508del and 2,3del21kb, and the mild 3849+10kbC > T. No statistically significant increase in the frequency of these mutations was found in the studied...
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