Cystic Fibrosis Twin and Sib Study

Our CF researchers have delivered presentations at prominent international scientific conferences. You can view their slides and listen to their talks by using the links below.

The 21st Annual North American CF Conference (2007 NACFC)

• Dr. Garry Cutting - Components Contributing to Disease Variability
• Dr. Michael Collaco - Interactions Among Environmental and Genetic Factors that Affect CF Lung Disease Severity
• Dr. Lori Vanscoy - A 6 Megabase Region on the Long Arm of Chromosome 5 Displays Linkage to Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Measures of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease Severity
• Dr. Scott Blackman - TCF7L2, a Risk Gene for Type 2 Diabetes, Is Associated with Cystic Fibrosis-related Diabetes
• Dr. Molly Sheridan - CFTR Screening Does Not Identify All CFTR Coding Region Mutations in CF Patients
  

The 22nd Annual North American CF Conference (2008 NACFC)

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• Dr. Garry Cutting - Finding Genetic Modifiers of CF Lung Disease Using Genome-Wide Linkage  PDF |MP3

• Dr. Juan Celedon - Genome Wide Association Studies: Brief Overview and Application to Asthma  PDF | MP3
• Dr. Scott Blackman -Genetic Influences on Body Mass Index in CF  PDF | MP3
• Dr. Vishal Doshi - CAST as a Genetic Modifier of CF  PDF | MP3

The 23rd Annual North American CF Conference (2009 NACFC)

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• Dr. J. Michael Collaco - Contribution of Environment and Genes to Lung Function  PDF | MP3
• Dr. Scott Blackman - Genome Wide Variants for CF Related Diabetes  PDF | MP3
• Dr. Lindsay Henderson - MSRA Gene Haplotypes and Meconium Ileus  PDF | MP3

The 24th Annual North American CF Conference (2010 NACFC)

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• Dr. Garry Cutting - Genetic Impact on Disease Severity: What is Clinically Meaningful  PDF | MP3
• Dr. J. Michael Collaco - Ambient Temperature Associated with Variation in CF Lung Disease  PDF | MP3
• Dr. Scott Blackman -  CF-Related Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: Different on the Outside, Similar on the Inside?  PDF | MP3
• Dr. Patrick Sosnay - Assessing Disease Liability of Missense CFTR Mutations Using Differing Percentages of Wild-type Function  PDF | MP3
• Dr. Neeraj Sharma - An Internal Motif of CFTR Enhances EBP50/NHERF Multimerization and Modulates Localization of CFTR  PDF | MP3