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Nicotinic acetylcholine gene cluster CHRNA5-A3-B4 variants influence smoking status in a Bangladeshi population.
Pharmacological reports : PR - 1 Apr 2021
Chaity Nusrat Islam, Sultana Taposhi Nahid, Hasan Md Mehedi, Shrabonee Ishrat Islam, Nahid Noor Ahmed, Islam Md Saiful, Apu Mohd Nazmul Hasan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Past studies have established the association of CHRNA5-A3-B4 gene cluster variants with various smoking behaviors in different ethnicities, yet no such study has been reported in Bengali ethnicity to date. METHODS: A case-control study with 129 smokers and 111 non-smokers was conducted and genotyped using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method aimed to...
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