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The role of smoking status and collagen IX polymorphisms in the susceptibility to cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 9 May 2012
Wang Z C, Shi J G, Chen X S, Xu G H, Li L J, Jia L S
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We investigated a possible association of collagen IX tryptophan (Trp) alleles (Trp2 and Trp3) and smoking with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) in 172 Chinese patients and 176 age- and gender-matched controls. The smoking status was evaluated by smoking index (SI). The CSM cases had a significantly higher prevalence of Trp2 alleles (Trp2+) than controls (19.8 vs 6.2%, P = 0.002), but the prevalence of...
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