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Identifying a Deletion Affecting Total Lung Capacity Among Subjects in the COPDGene Study Cohort.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2016
Begum Ferdouse, Ruczinski Ingo, Li Shengchao, Silverman Edwin K, Cho Michael H, Lynch David A, Curran-Everett Douglas, Crapo James, Scharpf Robert B, Parker Margaret M, Hetmanski Jacqueline B, Beaty Terri H
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive disease with both environmental and genetic risk factors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple genomic regions influencing risk of COPD. To thoroughly investigate the genetic etiology of COPD, however, it is also important to explore the role of copy number variants (CNVs) because the presence of structural variants can alter...
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