Genetic Ancestry-Smoking Interactions and Lung Function in African Americans: A Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Smoking tobacco reduces lung function. African Americans have both lower lung function and decreased metabolism of tobacco smoke compared to European Americans. African ancestry is also associated with lower pulmonary function in African Americans. We aimed to determine whether African a...

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Autores principales: Aldrich, Melinda C., Kumar, Rajesh, Colangelo, Laura A., Williams, L. Keoki, Sen, Saunak, Kritchevsky, Stephen B., Meibohm, Bernd, Galanter, Joshua, Hu, Donglei, Gignoux, Christopher R., Liu, Yongmei, Harris, Tamara B., Ziv, Elad, Zmuda, Joseph, Garcia, Melissa, Leak, Tennille S., Foreman, Marilyn G., Smith, Lewis J., Fornage, Myriam, Liu, Kiang, Burchard, Esteban G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22737244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039541

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