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Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with the A455E mutation, in both the French Canadian and the Dutch population, share a common haplotype over distances of up to 25 cM. French Canadian patients with the 621+1G→T mutation share a common haplotype of more than 14 cM. In contrast, haplotypes containing the ΔF508 mutation show haplotype identity over a much shorter genomic distance within and between populations, probably because of the multiple introduction of this most common mutation. Haplotype analysis for specific mutations in CF or in other recessive diseases can be used as a model for studying the occurrence of genetic drift conditional on gene frequencies. Moreover, from our results, it can be inferred that analysis of shared haplotypes is a suitable method for genetic mapping in general.
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Received: 30 November 1995 / Revised: 11 April 1996
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de Vries, H., van der Meulen, M., Rozen, R. et al. Haplotype identity between individuals who share a CFTR mutation allele “identical by descent”: demonstration of the usefulness of the haplotype-sharing concept for gene mapping in real populations. Hum Genet 98, 304–309 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004390050211
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004390050211