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• TITLE: Genetic Implications in COPD. The Current Knowledge

  AUTHORS: Ioannis Sotiriou, Demosthenes Makris

  KEYWORDS: Association Studies; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Genetics; Genes; Polymorphisms

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Respiratory Diseases, Vol.3 No.2, May 28, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a multifactorial disease in the pathogenesis of which contributes a variety of causative factors including genetic and environmental ones. They may also be interactions of genetic susceptibilities and environmental influences. Towards to that in the pathogenesis of the disease except smoking, it seems to have a great impact the genetic predisposition of the individuals suffering from that serious progressive disease. Regarding to these observations and findings very interesting studies have been conducted in order to elucidate the implications of different genes, and their polymorphisms in disease aetiology. This is a review which elucidates the impact of genetic susceptibility in COPD.