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P2Y2 receptor polymorphisms and haplotypes in cystic fibrosis and their impact on Ca2+ influx.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Mar 2006
Büscher Rainer, Hoerning André, Patel Hemal H, Zhang Shen, Arthur David B, Grasemann Hartmut, Ratjen Felix, Insel Paul A
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OBJECTIVE: Activation of P2Y2 receptors in airway epithelia by ATP and UTP stimulates a Ca2+-regulated Cl- channel, which regulates Cl- secretion in cystic fibrosis (CF). We hypothesized that genetic alterations in the P2Y2 receptor may act as disease modifiers in CF and thus analyzed the coding region of this gene for polymorphisms in 146 CF patients and 64 healthy controls. We also assessed the impact of the...
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