Team:Heidelberg/project/cf

INTRODUCTION

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive monogenetic disorder, which is present in every ethnicity worldwide. Especially Europeans are affected with 1:2000 to 1:3000 people exhibiting cystic fibrosis WHO-2004, while Japanese people are least affected with an incidence rate of 1:100000 to 1:350000. In Germany the incidence rate for cystic fibrosis is 1:3300, in the USA it is 1:3500. Ireland has the highest incidence rate with 1:1800 people WHO-2004.

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