Mutational spectrum of cystic fibrosis in the Lebanese population
โ Scribed by Chantal Farra; Rita Menassa; Johnny Awwad; Yves Morel; Pascale Salameh; Nadine Yazbeck; Marianne Majdalani; Rima Wakim; Khalid Yunis; Salman Mroueh; Faiza Cabet
- Book ID
- 119288780
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1569-1993
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regarding the manuscript are gratefully acknowledged. The operating cost of the Consortium is supported by a grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of the USA.
We have studied 72 families with at least one child with cystic fibrosis (CF); they were referred because they had requested pre-natal diagnosis in a future pregnancy. The AF508 mutation was found in 108/140 CF chromosomes (77%). In 41/72 families (57%), both parents carried a deleted chromosome and