Nature Medicine
4, 663 - 664 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0698-663
The CFTR advantae-capitalizing on a quirk of fateAlice PrinceDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA Protection against enteric pathogens may partly explain the proposed heterozygote advantage of cystic fibrosis mutations in certain populations.
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