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Surfactant protein-A gene locus associated with recurrent otitis media
1Department of Pediatrics, University Central Hospital, and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
Surfactant protein-A, which plays a role in innate host defense in the lung, is also expressed in the Eustachian tube. We report that the frequency of specific surfactant protein-A haplotypes and genotypes differs between children with recurrent otitis media compared with a control population.