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Conceptual framework of the interaction between environmental exposure including smoking, alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) level and/or AAT genotype, other genetic factors and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk. Note that there are no studies that show that genotype is more important than blood concentration of AAT for COPD risk assessment.
