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Variability in small airway epithelial gene expression among normal smokers.
Chest - 1 Jun 2008
Ammous Zeinab, Hackett Neil R, Butler Marcus W, Raman Tina, Dolgalev Igor, O'Connor Timothy P, Harvey Ben-Gary, Crystal Ronald G
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BACKGROUND: Despite overwhelming data that cigarette smoking causes COPD, only a minority of long-term smokers are affected, strongly suggesting that genetic factors modify susceptibility to this disease. We hypothesized that individual variations exist in the response to cigarette smoking, with variability among smokers in expression levels of protective/susceptibility genes. METHODS: Affymetrix arrays and...
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