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Transforming growth factor-β1 genotype and susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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- Published on: 29 April 2016
- Published on: 29 April 2016What about other polymorphisms in Transforming growth factor- beta1?Show More
Dear Editor
We read with interest the recent article by Wu et al. [1] in which they investigated a single nucleotide polymorphism at exon 1 of the transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) gene.
While we agree with their assumption that TGF-beta1 is a candidate gene for COPD association study, we can not understand why they restricted their study to only one polymorphism in that gene. There a...
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