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Surfactant protein B polymorphisms are associated with severe respiratory syncytial virus infection, but not with asthma.
BMC pulmonary medicine - 11 May 2007
Puthothu Beena, Forster Johannes, Heinze Jessica, Heinzmann Andrea, Krueger Marcus
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BACKGROUND: Surfactant proteins (SP) are important for the innate host defence and essential for a physiological lung function. Several linkage and association studies have investigated the genes coding for different surfactant proteins in the context of pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstruc...
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