Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency in the Cape Verde islands (Northwest Africa): High prevalence in a sub-Saharan population

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1069-1072

  Spínola, Carla ^a   Brehm, António ^a   Spínola, Hélder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency; Cape Verde archipelago; S and Z mutations

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CAMEROON; CAPE VERDE; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GAMBIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALI; MORBIDITY; MOZAMBIQUE; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NAMIBIA; NIGERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; CAPE VERDE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952883288     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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