A large deletion in the CFTR gene in CBAVD

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-95

  Hantash, Feras M ^a   Milunsky, Aubrey ^b   Wang, Zhenyuan ^b   Anderson, Ben ^a   Sun, Weimin ^a   Anguiano, Arturo ^a   Strom, Charles M ^a  

^a QUEST DIAGNOSTICS NICHOLS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical CF; CBAVD; CFTR; Deletion; SQF PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

AGENESIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CFTR GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EXON; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REGULATOR GENE; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; VAS DEFERENS AGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; VAS DEFERENS;

COHORT STUDIES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 33645396501     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gim.0000200945.54234.d7     Document Type: Article

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