[The severe, early onset emphysema that occurs in patients with circulating deficiency of alpha(1)-antitrypsin (alpha(1)-AT) attests to the importance of this protease inhibitor in maintaining lung parenchymal integrity.]. 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