Article
Association between 17q21 variants and asthma predisposition in Pashtun population from Pakistan.
The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma - 1 Jan 2023
Afzal Sibtain, Ramzan Khushnooda, Ullah Sajjad, Jamal Arshad, Basit Sulman, AlKattan Khaled M, Waqar Ahmed Bilal
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Asthma is a heterogeneous and genetically complex respiratory disease, and more than 300 million people are affected worldwide. In this study, frequencies of four SNPs (rs3816470, rs7216389, rs8067378, rs12603332) in chromosome 17q21 region were analyzed and their relationship with the asthma susceptibility, in the Pashtun population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) of Pakistan were investigated....
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