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Vitamin D binding protein variants associate with asthma susceptibility in the Chinese Han population.
BMC medical genetics - 3 Aug 2011
Li Fei, Jiang Lei, Willis-Owen Saffron A, Zhang Youming, Gao Jinming
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Asthma is a genetically heterogeneous disease. Polymorphisms of genes encoding components of the vitamin D pathway have been reported to associate with the risk of asthma. We have previously demonstrated that vitamin D status was associated with lung function in Chinese asthma patients. In this study, we tested whether polymorphisms of genes encoding for vitamin D receptor (VDR), vitamin D...
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