A genome-wide association study in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): identification of two major susceptibility loci.

There is considerable variability in the susceptibility of smokers to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The only known genetic risk factor is severe deficiency of alpha(1)-antitrypsin, which is present in 1-2% of individuals with COPD. We conducted a genome-wide association study...

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Published in:	PLoS Genetics
Main Authors:	Sreekumar G Pillai, Dongliang Ge, Guohua Zhu, Xiangyang Kong, Kevin V Shianna, Anna C Need, Sheng Feng, Craig P Hersh, Per Bakke, Amund Gulsvik, Andreas Ruppert, Karin C Lødrup Carlsen, Allen Roses, Wayne Anderson, Stephen I Rennard, David A Lomas, Edwin K Silverman, David B Goldstein, ICGN Investigators
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-03-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000421&type=printable