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Estimating the risk for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency among COPD patients: evidence supporting targeted screening.
COPD - 1 Aug 2006
de Serres Frederick J, Blanco Ignacio, Fernández-Bustillo Enrique
Abstract excerpt
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is known as a significant genetic risk factor for COPD for carriers of phenotype PIMZ, and for phenotypes PIZZ and PISZ. Genetic epidemiological studies for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency conducted by others on both COPD patients and concurrent non-COPD controls were used to estimate the risk factors for all six phenotypic classes (namely, the normal phenotype PIMM, and the 5...
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