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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor variants associated with susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Only 10-15% of smokers develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which indicates genetic susceptibility to the disease. Recent studies suggested an association between COPD and polymorphisms in CHRNA coding subunits of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Herein, we performed a m...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Jing, Summah, Hanssa, Zhu, Ying-gang, Qu, Jie-Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22176972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-12-158