[The lack of circulating α(1)-antitrypsin exposes the lungs to uncontrolled proteolytic attack and so can predispose the Z α(1)-antitrypsin homozygote to early-onset emphysema.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE