Telomere lengths, pulmonary fibrosis and telomerase (TERT) Mutations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Diaz de Leon, Alberto ^a   Cronkhite, Jennifer T ^a   Katzenstein, Anna Luise A ^c   Godwin, J David ^d   Raghu, Ganesh ^d   Glazer, Craig S ^b   Rosenblatt, Randall L ^b   Girod, Carlos E ^b   Garrity, Edward R ^e   Xing, Chao ^a   Garcia, Christine Kim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA ISOLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LETHALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMILY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SMOKING; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956289135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010680     Document Type: Article

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