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Risk and severity of COPD is associated with the group-specific component of serum globulin 1F allele.
Chest - 1 Jan 2004
Ito Isao, Nagai Sonoko, Hoshino Yuma, Muro Shigeo, Hirai Toyohiro, Tsukino Mitsuhiro, Mishima Michiaki
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The finding that only 15 to 20% of cigarette smokers acquire COPD suggests that there is a genetic predisposition to the disease. Genetic polymorphism of the group-specific component of serum globulin (Gc-globulin), also known as vitamin-D-binding protein, is considered one of the can...
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