Widespread Sexual Dimorphism in the Transcriptome of Human Airway Epithelium in Response to Smoking

Scientific Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Yang, Chen Xi ^a   Shi, Henry ^a   Ding, Irving ^a   Milne, Stephen ^a   Hernandez Cordero, Ana I ^a   Yang, Cheng Wei Tony ^a   Kim, Edward Kyoo Hoon ^a   Hackett, Tillie Louise ^a   Leung, Janice ^a   Sin, Don D ^a   Obeidat, Ma’en ^a  

^a The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; AUTOPHAGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA MINING; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; AUTOPHAGY; DATA MINING; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NON-SMOKERS; PRECISION MEDICINE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKERS; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO SMOKING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85075625634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54051-y     Document Type: Article

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