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Article: Cystic fibrosis gene and protein identified.
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- September 2, 1989
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Cystic fibrosis gene and protein identified
After years of searching through DNA strands, a U.S.-Canadian research team has located the defective gene causing cystic fibrosis and has isolated its protein product. The finding might ultimately lead to new treatments and better genetic counseling for this devastating genetic disorder, which strikes one in every 2,000 white children in the United States.
"There has been an enormous bottle-neck in the understanding of cystic fibrosis, and that has been the failure to identify the gene," Francis S. Collins of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor said last week at a press confrence in Washington, D.C. ...