A point of view: Quantitative and qualitative imbalance in disease pathogenesis; pulmonary surfactant protein A genetic variants as a model

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 295-303

  Floros, Joanna ^a,b   Wang, Guirong ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele interaction; Allele environment interaction; Alleles; Multifactorial disease pathogenesis; Qualitative imbalance; Quantitative imbalance; RDS; SP A; Surfactant protein A; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DNA; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A;

ALLELE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PATHOGENESIS;

EID: 0035012240     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(01)00325-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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