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The Irish cystic fibrosis database.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Dec 1995
Cashman S M, Patino A, Delgado M G, Byrne L, Denham B, De Arce M
Abstract excerpt
We have found records of 1014 Irish cystic fibrosis patients alive by December 1994, belonging to 883 families. Prevalence in the population is 1/3475 and incidence at birth 1/1461, with a gene frequency of 2.6%. Twenty percent of the patients are aged over 20 years, but at present survival rate falls rapidly after that age. We have identified 85% of the mutations on the CFTR gene in a sample of 29% of the...
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