Absence of association between angiotensin converting enzyme polymorphism and development of adult respiratory distress syndrome in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome: a case control study

BACKGROUND: It has been postulated that genetic predisposition may influence the susceptibility to SARS-coronavirus infection and disease outcomes. A recent study has suggested that the deletion allele (D allele) of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene is associated with hypoxemia in SARS pa...

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Autores principales: Chan, KC Allen, Tang, Nelson LS, Hui, David SC, Chung, Grace TY, Wu, Alan KL, Chim, Stephen SC, Chiu, Rossa WK, Lee, Nelson, Choi, KW, Sung, YM, Chan, Paul KS, Tong, YK, Lai, ST, Yu, WC, Tsang, Owen, Lo, YM Dennis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1090578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15819995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-5-26

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