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[The study of interleukin-13 gene promoter polymorphism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].
Zhonghua jie he he hu xi za zhi = Zhonghua jiehe he huxi zazhi = Chinese journal of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases - 1 Aug 2004
He Bei, Zhao Ming-wu, Ning Lan-ding, Jiang Ling, Yao Wan-zhen
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To study the frequencies of interleukin-13 (IL-13) gene promoter 1055 (IL-13-1055) polymorphism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to investigate the effect of this genetic polymorphism on COPD in Chinese. METHODS: The polymorphism in 111 COPD patients and 97 controls who had non-obstructive pulmonary disease were studied. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood...
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