Method for predicting risk of developing chronic pulmonary emphysema

摘要

An objective of this invention is to provide a method for predicting the risk of subject developing chronic pulmonary emphysema. To achieve the objective, this invention provides a method for predicting the risk of subject developing chronic pulmonary emphysema comprising determining the number of GT repeats within a GT repeat sequence located upstream of hemeoxigenase-1, in which if the number of the GT repeats is not less than 30, the subject has a high risk of developing chronic pulmonary emphysema.