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Polymorphisms in the surfactant protein a gene are associated with the susceptibility to recurrent urinary tract infection in chinese women.
The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine - 1 May 2010
Liu Jiao, Hu Fengqi, Liang Wei, Wang Guirong, Singhal Pravin C, Ding Guohua
Abstract excerpt
Some risk factors for susceptibility to recurrent urinary tract infection (r-UTI) are well known, but the genetic role in acquiring the disease is poorly understood. Surfactant protein A and D (SP-A and SP-D) play an important role in modulation of lung inflammatory processes. The SP-A1 and SP-A2 genes encoding SP-A and the SP-D gene are highly polymorphic, and some of polymorphisms are associated with several...
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