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Clinical and molecular genetic features of pulmonary hypertension in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
The New England journal of medicine - 2 Aug 2001
Trembath R C, Thomson J R, Machado R D, Morgan N V, Atkinson C, Winship I, Simonneau G, Galie N, Loyd J E, Humbert M, Nichols W C, Morrell N W, Berg J, Manes A, McGaughran J, Pauciulo M, Wheeler L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Most patients with familial primary pulmonary hypertension have defects in the gene for bone morphogenetic protein receptor II (BMPR2), a member of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of receptors. Because patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia may...
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