Cystic fibrosis mutations in North American populations of French ancestry: Analysis of Quebec French-Canadian and Louisiana Acadian families

Rima Rozen, Robert H. Schwartz, Bettina C. Hilman, Pat Stanislovitis, Glenn T. Horn, Katherine Klinger, Jocelyne Daigneault, Marc De Braekeleer, Bat Sheva Kerem, Lap Chee Tsui, T. Mary Fujiwara, Kenneth Morgan*

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Abstract

A 3-bp deletion (ΔF508) in the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene is the mutation on the majority of CF chromosomes. We studied 112 CF families from North American populations of French ancestry: French-Canadian families referred from hospitals in three cities in Quebec and from the Saguenay-Lac St. Jean region of northeastern Quebec and Acadian families living in Louisiana. ΔF508 was present on 71%, 55%, and 70% of the CF chromosomes from the major-urban Quebec, Saguenay-Lac St. Jean, and Louisiana Acadian families, respectively. A weighted estimate of the proportion of ΔF508 in the French-Canadian patient population of Quebec was 70%. We found that 95% of the CF chromosomes with ΔF508 had D7S23 haplotype B, the most frequent haplotype on CF chromosomes. In the Saguenay-Lac St. Jean families, 86% of the CF chromosomes without ΔF508 had the B haplotype, compared with 31% for the major-urban Quebec and Louisiana Acadian families. The incidence of CF in the Saguenay-Lac St. Jean population was 1/895 live-born infants.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)606-610
Number of pages5
JournalAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
Volume47
Issue number4
StatePublished - Oct 1990
Externally publishedYes

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