“…However, a case can be made for adding other ethnic/racial-group specific mutations to the basic panel to expand its pan-ethnicity. Examples of such mutations would include: 394delTT (common in Scandanavia) (Schaedel et al, 1999); 2183AA R G (common in Italy, parts of Germany/Austria) (Kilinc et al, 2000); 71115G R A, Q552X (for northern Italy) (Bombieri and Pignatti, 2001); R1158X (in southern Italians) (Castaldo et al, 1999); 3905inst (in the Swiss, Amish, and Acadians) (Hergersberg et al, 1997; http://www.genet.sickkids.on.ca/cftr/rptTable3.html); S549N, Y1092X, and E60X (general U.S. caucasian population) (Heim et al, 2001); and 181111.2kbA R G, 1609delCA, R1066C, and 3272226A R G (in Spain and Portugal) (http://www.genet.sickkids.on.ca/ cftr/rptTable3.html). There are others for which a case can be made for completeness and to increase the carrier detection rate in the United States: 2307insA, A559T, and S1255X (African-Americans) (Macek et al, 1997); M1101K (Hutterites) (Zielinski et al, 1993); 189815G R A in Taiwanese Chinese (Zielinski et al, 1995); 4016insT, L1065P, and G1244E (southern Italians) (Castaldo et al, 1999) (Table 2).…”