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The association of inhaled particulate pollution and cigarette smoking with pulmonary disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is well documented [ 1 ] , but the specific early responses of lung epithelial cells to toxic substances in particulates - that predispose the cells to disease - have not been elucidated.
Most simply, individual MHC alleles may be especially effective, or especially ineffective, at presenting antigens from particular infections, so that carrying one or two copies of a given MHC allele might predispose an infected individual to a more or less favorable disease outcome.
We propose that the loss or reduction of BRCA1 may predispose a cell population to neoplastic transformation by altering the balance between cell death and proliferation/survival, rendering it more sensitive to secondary genetic changes.
Certainly not all the findings are surprising; some rare cancers are already known to be associated with particular genetic defects, and syndromes that predispose to multiple cancers have been described, for example, that of Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer.
They may also be of use in testing for allelic association of candidate genes and regions by SNPs, because alleles that predispose to disease should have a higher allele frequency in siblings who share chromosomal regions than in siblings who do not.