Natural history of pulmonary fibrosis in two subjects with the same telomerase mutation

Chest

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1203-1209

  El Chemaly, Souheil ^a   Ziegler, Shira G ^b   Calado, Rodrigo T ^a   Wilson, Kirkland A ^b   Wu, Hai Ping ^a   Haughey, Mary ^a   Peterson, Nathan R ^a   Young, Neal S ^a   Gahl, William A ^b   Moss, Joel ^a   Gochuico, Bernadette R ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; DISEASE COURSE; EXON; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; TELOMERE;

EID: 79955753008     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-2048     Document Type: Article

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