[Because ACE is heavily expressed in the lungs and plays a key role in the metabolism of angiotensin II and bradykinin, which are potentially involved in the pathogenesis of asthma, we tested the hypothesis of an association between the polymorphism of the ACE gene and asthma.]. 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