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Sweat Electrolytes as a Clinical and Genetic Test in Mucoviscidosis. Study of Variability and Genetic Conditioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Giuseppe Del Porto*
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute for Medical Genetics and Twin Studies, Rome, Italy (Director: Prof. Luigi Gedda)
Barbara Di Tonto
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute for Medical Genetics and Twin Studies, Rome, Italy (Director: Prof. Luigi Gedda)
*
Istituto di Genetica Medica e Gemellologia Gregorio Mendel, Piazza Galeno 5, 00161 Roma, Italy

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Aiming at a better clinical and genetic utilization of the sweat test in mucoviscidosis, the authors have carried out an evaluation of the variability and the genetic conditioning of the level of Na+ and Cl electrolytes in human sweat.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1973

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