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Relationship between COPD and polymorphisms of HOX-1 and mEPH in a Chinese population.
Oncology reports - 1 Feb 2007
Fu Wei-Ping, Sun Chang, Dai Lu-Ming, Yang Li-Fen, Zhang Ya-Ping
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have proposed that susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) might be related with the polymorphisms of some genes encoding antioxidant enzymes, such as heme oxygenase-1 (HOX-1) and microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEPH). We examined these polymorphisms in 256 patients with COPD and 266 healthy smokers from Han population in Southwest China. The frequencies of each allele were...
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