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Glucose homeostasis and genotype-phenotype interplay in cystic fibrosis patients with CFTR gene deltaF508 mutation.
Diabetes care - 1 May 2007
Preumont Vanessa, Hermans Michel P, Lebecque Patrick, Buysschaert Martin
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OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the clinical phenotype of adolescent/adult patients with cystic fibrosis, according to heterozygosity or homozygosity for cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) deltaF508 mutation, and to analyze their characteristics according to glucose tolerance status. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 76 cystic fibrosis patients with CFTR deltaF508 mutation (33 heterozygous and...
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