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. 2017 Apr 15;195(8):979-984.
doi: 10.1164/rccm.201606-1250PP.

Cystic Fibrosis: The Dawn of a New Therapeutic Era

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Cystic Fibrosis: The Dawn of a New Therapeutic Era

Sonya L Heltshe et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. .
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Figure 1.
Classes of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein (CFTR) mutations. Note that class VI is not included in this figure. Adapted by permission from http://www.umd.be/CFTR/W_CFTR/gene.html with initial adaptation from Welsh and Smith (26) and Scriver and colleagues (63). Reprinted from Reference , by permission from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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