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Bleomycin hydrolase and a genetic locus within the MHC affect risk for pulmonary fibrosis in mice.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Aug 2002
Haston Christina K, Wang Min, Dejournett Robert E, Zhou Xinhui, Ni Dan, Gu Xiangjun, King Terri M, Weil Michael M, Newman Robert A, Amos Christopher I, Travis Elizabeth L
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to pulmonary fibrosis following environmental insults or cytotoxic cancer therapies has a genetic component. In mouse strains differing in susceptibility to bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis, we show highly significant linkage to only two loci. The first locus on chromosome 17 in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), LOD = 17.4, named Blmpf1, is highly significant in both males and females, and...
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