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Delta F508 genotype does not predict disease severity in an ethnically diverse cystic fibrosis population.
Pediatrics - 1 Jan 1994
Lester L A, Kraut J, Lloyd-Still J, Karrison T, Mott C, Billstrand C, Lemke A, Ober C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: As part of a study to determine population-based frequencies of CFTR mutations in an ethnically diverse, midwestern cystic fibrosis (CF) population, clinical histories were studied in 119 CF patients. METHODOLOGY: We sought to examine the association between genotype as characterized by the delta F508 and 11 other commonly occurring mutations and clinical parameters including age at diagnosis, clinical...
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