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Double mutant alleles: are they rare?
Human molecular genetics - 1 Jul 1995
Savov A, Angelicheva D, Balassopoulou A, Jordanova A, Noussia-Arvanitakis S, Kalaydjieva L
Abstract excerpt
The presence of two different mutations carried by the same CF allele has been demonstrated in four out of 44 Bulgarian CF patients during a systematic search of the entire coding sequence of the CFTR gene. Two of the double mutant alleles include one nonsense and one missense mutation and although the nonsense mutation can be considered to be the main defect, the amino acid substitutions are good candidates for...
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