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Genetic influences on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - a twin study.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Dec 2010
Ingebrigtsen Truls, Thomsen Simon F, Vestbo Jørgen, van der Sluis Sophie, Kyvik Kirsten O, Silverman Edwin K, Svartengren Magnus, Backer Vibeke
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genes that contribute to the risk of developing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have been identified, but an attempt to accurately quantify the total genetic contribution to COPD has to our knowledge never been conducted. METHODS: Hospital discharge diagnoses data on COPD were analysed in 22,422 Danish twin pairs, 20-71 years of age. The analyses were replicated in a population of 27,668...
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