Genetics for Pulmonologists

Genetics for Pulmonologists PDF Author: Jordan Prutkin
Publisher: Remedica
ISBN: 1901346455
Category : Lung Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Book Description
Our understanding of the relationship between genetics and pulmonary disorders is still evolving. In 1989 cloning of the gene that, when mutated, causes cystic fibrosis marked a great advance in the study of genetic diseases. Yet, over a decade later, understanding of how this genetic defect leads to colonization by bacteria and inflammation in the lung remains elusive.