The Irish cystic fibrosis database.

doi:10.1136/jmg.32.12.972

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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...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Child
Child, Preschool
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator
Databases, Factual
Gene Frequency
Haplotypes
Humans
Infant
Ireland
Microsatellite Repeats
Mutation

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