Analysis of 16 cystic fibrosis mutations in Mexican patients.

We carried out molecular analysis of 80 chromosomes from 40 unrelated Mexican patients with a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. The study was performed in two PCR steps: a preliminary one to identify mutation delta F508, the most frequent cause of cystic fibrosis worldwide, and the second a reverse dot-blot with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes to detect 15 additional common mutations in the Caucasian population. A frequency of 45% for delta F508 was found, making it the most common in our sample of Mexican patients. Another five mutations (G542X, 3,849 + 10 kb C-->T, N1303K, SN549N, and 621 + 1 G-->T) were detected, and those accounted for 11.25%. The remaining mutations (43.75%) were undetectable with the methodology used.