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Association of smoking behavior with an odorant receptor allele telomeric to the human major histocompatibility complex.
Genetic testing - 1 Dec 2008
Santos Pablo Sandro Carvalho, Füst George, Prohászka Zoltán, Volz Armin, Horton Roger, Miretti Marcos, Yu Chack-Yung, Beck Stephan, Uchanska-Ziegler Barbara, Ziegler Andreas
Abstract excerpt
Smoking behavior has been associated in two independent European cohorts with the most common Caucasian human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haplotype (A1-B8-DR3). We aimed to test whether polymorphic members of the two odorant receptor (OR) clusters within the extended HLA complex might be responsible for the observed association, by genotyping a cohort of Hungarian women in which the mentioned association had been...
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