Genetic determinants of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in South Indian male smokers.
The development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, upon exposure to tobacco smoke, is the cumulative effect of defects in several genes. With the aim of understanding the genetic structure that is characteristic of our patient population, we selected forty two single nucleotide polymorphisms...
Main Authors: | Cholendra Arja, Rajasekhara Reddy Ravuri, Venugopal N Pulamaghatta, Krishna Mohan Surapaneni, Premanand Raya, Chandrasekhar Adimoolam, Kodanda Reddy Kanala |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3933698?pdf=render |
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