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Analysis of 16 cystic fibrosis mutations in Mexican patients.
American journal of medical genetics - 14 Apr 1997
Villalobos-Torres C, Rojas-Martínez A, Villareal-Castellanos E, Cantú J M, Sánchez-Anzaldo F J, Saiki R K, Barrera-Saldaña H A
Abstract excerpt
We carried out molecular analysis of 80 chromosomes from 40 unrelated Mexican patients with a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. The study was performed in two PCR steps: a preliminary one to identify mutation delta F508, the most frequent cause of cystic fibrosis worldwide, and the second a reverse dot-blot with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes to detect 15 additional common mutations in the Caucasian...
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