Cystic fibrosis in Uruguay

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-38

  Luzardo, Gerardo ^a   Aznarez, Isabel ^a   Crispino, Beatriz ^a   Mimbacas, Adriana ^a,b   Martínez, Liria ^c   Poggio, Rossana ^a   Zielenski, Julian ^d,e   Tsui, Lap Chee ^d,e   Cardoso, Horacio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

^c Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell   (Uruguay)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autosomal genetic disease; Cystic fibrosis; Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator mutations

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; CFTR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; URUGUAY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; URUGUAY;

EID: 2342439411     PISSN: 16765680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol1-1gmr003     Document Type: Article

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