Article
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 diseas...
Topics
- Adult
- Child
- Ciliary Motility Disorders
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid