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      Cystic fibrosis patients from the black sea region: The 1677delTA mutation 

      Angelicheva, D.; Boteva, Kalina; Jordanova, A.; Savov, A.; Kufardjieva, A.; Tolun, A.; Telatar, M.; Akarsubaşi, A.; Köprübaşi, F.; Aydoǧdu, S.; Demirkol, M.; Kurdoǧlu, G.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Georgiou, Christina; Dean, M.; Ivaschenko, T.; Baranov, V.; Kalaydjieva, L. (1994)
      A 2 bp deletion in exon 10 of the CFTR gene, 1677delTA, which is very rare among CF chromosomes worldwide, was found to be a relatively common cause of cystic fibrosis in countries located in the region of the Black Sea. ...
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      Description of a symptomless cystic fibrosis L346P/M348K compound heterozygous Cypriot individual 

      Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Boteva, Kalina; Georgiou, A.; Papageorgiou, Elena; Georgiou, Christina (1996)
      During the past few years we have been testing the hypothesis that Cyprus may have been spared many severe cystic fibrosis (CF) cases but not cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutations. We have ...
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      Genetic heterogeneity in adult dominant polycystic kidney disease in Cypriot families 

      Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Papageorgiou, Elena; Boteva, Kalina; Christodoulou, Kyproula; Breuning, M. H.; Peters, D. J. M.; Pierides, Alkis M. (1995)
      Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited heterogeneous disorder that affects approximately 1:1000 Europeans. It is characterized mainly by the formation of cysts in the kidney that lead to end-stage renal failure with ...
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      Novel cystic fibrosis mutation associated with mild disease in Cypriot patients 

      Boteva, Kalina; Papageorgiou, Elena; Georgiou, Christina; Angastiniotis, Michael A.; Middleton, Lefkos T.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (1994)
      Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediter-ranean basin inhabited by people of Caucasian extraction, mostly Greek-Cypriots. The most common inherited disease among Caucasians is cystic fibrosis (CF). Although no careful ...
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      Weak evidence for allelic association in the cypriot PKD1 population. 

      Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Papageorgiou, Elena; Boteva, Kalina; Christodoulou, Kyproula; Pierides, Alkis M. (1995)