A variant in the promoter of MUC5B and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 1576-1577

  Zhang, Yingze ^a   Noth, Imre ^b   Garcia, Joe G N ^c   Kaminski, Naftali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUCIN 5B; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A2; SURFACTANT PROTEIN C; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 79955144623     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1013504     Document Type: Letter

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