Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD) and cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR): correlation between genotype and phenotype
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics
- Vol. 97 (1) , 7-10
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00218824
Abstract
To assess better the link between congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD) and cystic fibrosis (CF), we compared sweat chloride values, analysis of the CFTR intron 8 poly(T) tract length and analysis of 10 exons in a population of 38 patients with CBAVD. The data indicate that this population can be divided into three groups of patients. In the first group of 15 patients with abnormal sweat chloride (> 60 mmol/l), the frequency of CF mutations is high. In the second group of 18 patients with equivocal sweat chloride (between 40 and 60 mmol/l), the frequency of the 5T variant is high; 6 patients have a ΔF508 mutation and a 5T variant and 1 patient is homozygous for the 5T variant; a 5T variant has been detected in 3 other patients, and a ΔF508 mutation in another patient. A third group of 5 patients is probably not related to CF: these patients have other congenital abnormalities of the urogenital tract, low chloride values (< 40 mmol/l) and apparently no abnormality of the CF gene.Keywords
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