Cystic fibrosis genotypes and views on screening are both heterogeneous and population related.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Cystic fibrosis carrier population screening in the primary care setting.American journal of human genetics · 1996
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2. Characteristic multiorgan pathology of cystic fibrosis in a long-living cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator knockout murine model.The American journal of pathology · 2004
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3. Cystic fibrosis heterozygote screening in 5,161 pregnant women.American journal of human genetics · 1996
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4. Screening for carriers of cystic fibrosis. Screening before pregnancy is needed.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1994
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5. Attitudes of high school students toward carrier screening and prenatal diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.Journal of genetic counseling · 1994
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6. Cystic fibrosis carrier screening: comparability of data and uniformity of testing.American journal of human genetics · 1994
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7. A report on CF carrier frequency among men with infertility owing to congenital absence of the vas deferens.Journal of medical genetics · 1993
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8. Implications of human genome research: impact on graduate education in genetic counseling.Journal of genetic counseling · 1993
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Corrections and comments

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  Screening for five mutations detects 97% of cystic fibrosis (CF) chromosomes and predicts a carrier frequency of 1:29 in the Jewish Ashkenazi population.1992

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