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Genetic Influences on Incidence and Case-Fatality of Infectious Disease

BACKGROUND: Family, twin and adoption studies suggest that genetic susceptibility contributes to familial aggregation of infectious diseases or to death from infections. We estimated genetic and shared environmental influences separately on the risk of acquiring an infection (incidence) and on dying...

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Autores principales: Petersen, Liselotte, Andersen, Per Kragh, Sørensen, Thorkild I. A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20498716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010603