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Tobacco smoking, fruit and vegetable intake modify association between -21A>T polymorphism of catalase gene and risk of bronchial asthma.
The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma - 1 Apr 2009
Polonikov A V, Ivanov V P, Solodilova M A, Kozhuhov M A, Panfilov V I
Abstract excerpt
Although oxidative stress is a cardinal feature of bronchial asthma, the role of interactions between environmental oxidant/antioxidant exposures and antioxidant genes in asthma aetiology has yet to be determined. The present study was conducted to investigate whether two common polymorphisms -21A > T and -262C > T of catalase (CAT) gene are associated with susceptibility to asthma in a Russian population and to...
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