Possible protective effect against chronic obstructive airways disease by the GC2 allele.

doi:10.1159/000153926

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Possible protective effect against chronic obstructive airways disease by the GC2 allele.

Human heredity - 1 Jan 1990

Horne S L, Cockcroft D W, Dosman J A

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The frequencies of GC phenotypes in 104 patients with chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) were compared with those in 413 control subjects. The distributions were significantly different with fewer patients with the GC 2 allele than expected (relative risks = 0.8, 0.7 and 0.5 for 2-2, 2-1S...

Topics

Alleles
Disease Susceptibility
Gene Frequency
Humans
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Phenotype
Vitamin D-Binding Protein
alpha 1-Antitrypsin

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