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Racially equitable diagnosis of cystic fibrosis using next-generation DNA sequencing: a case report.
BMC pediatrics - 31 Mar 2021
Shum Bennett O V, Bennett Glenn, Navilebasappa Akash, Kumar R Kishore
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BACKGROUND: Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the most prevalent autosomal recessive inherited disease in Caucasians. Rates of CF were thought to be negligible in non-Caucasians but growing epidemiological evidence shows CF is more common in Indian, African, Hispanic, Asian, and other ethnic groups than previously thought. Almost all second-tier molecular diagnostic tools currently used to confirm the diagnosis of...
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