α1 -Antitrypsin deficiency in fraternal twins born with familial spontaneous pneumothorax

Chest

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 239-241

  Greene, Dina N ^a   Procter, Melinda ^b   Krautscheid, Patti ^b   Mao, Rong ^a,b   Lyon, Elaine ^a,b   Grenache, David G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN;

ALLELE; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GESTATION PERIOD; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SERPINA1 GENE; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 84855429918     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-0104     Document Type: Article

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