Functional polymorphisms of CHRNA3 predict risks of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer in Chinese.

Recently, several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many susceptible single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer which are two closely related diseases. Among those SNPs, some of them are shared by both the diseases, re...

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Main Authors: Lei Yang, Fuman Qiu, Xiaoxiao Lu, Dongsheng Huang, Guanpei Ma, Yuan Guo, Min Hu, Yumin Zhou, Mingan Pan, Yigang Tan, Haibo Zhong, Weidong Ji, Qingyi Wei, Pixin Ran, Nanshan Zhong, Yifeng Zhou, Jiachun Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3463594?pdf=render