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Cystic ibrosis: Molecular Biology and Therapeutic Implications
1992-05-08
Abstract excerpt
Cystic fibrosis is the most common potentially lethal autosomal recessive disease of Caucasians, affecting 1 in 2500 newborns. Since the recent identification of the gene that is defective in patients with cystic fibrosis, a wealth of information about gene structure, the mutational basis of disease, and the function of the protein product has been derived. The product of the gene is a chloride channel that is reg...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7bf93c9e-87bd-5110-a067-a3a0889f89e5
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- 10.1126/science.256.5058.774
