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Clinical and mutation profile of children with cystic fibrosis in Jammu and Kashmir.
Indian pediatrics - 1 Mar 2014
Kawoosa Masarat Sultana, Bhat Mushtaq Ahmad, Ali Syed Wajid, Hafeez Imran, Shastri Shivram
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OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical and mutation profiles of children with cystic fibrosis in Jammu and Kashmir. METHODS: One hundred consecutive patients presenting with one or more phenotypic features suggestive of cystic fibrosis (CF) were screened by quantitative sweat chloride testing. For patients with positive/equivocal test result on two occasions, CFTR gene mutation analysis was done by polymerase chain...
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