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High prevalence of chitotriosidase deficiency in Peruvian Amerindians exposed to chitin-bearing food and enteroparasites
The human genome encodes a gene for an enzymatically active chitinase (CHIT1) located in a single copy on Chromosome 1, which is highly expressed by activated macrophages and in other cells of the innate immune response. Several dysfunctional mutations are known in CHIT1, including a 24-bp duplicati...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier Applied Science Publishers
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25256524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.07.011 |