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Cystic fibrosis mutations and immotile cilia syndrome.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 1995
Liechti-Gallati S, Kraemer R
Abstract excerpt
The immotile cilia syndrome (ICS) presents with autosomal recessive inheritance and is a chronic respiratory disease supposed to be caused by different genetic determinants. The hypothesis that cystic fibrosis (CF) heterozygotes may have a predisposition to develop bronchial or respiratory diseases other than CF prompted us to look for CF mutations in patients with ICS. Five patients, as well as the parents and...
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