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Investigation of second genetic hits at the BMPR2 locus as a modulator of disease progression in familial pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Circulation - 8 Feb 2005
Machado Rajiv D, James Victoria, Southwood Mark, Harrison Rachel E, Atkinson Carl, Stewart Susan, Morrell Nicholas W, Trembath Richard C, Aldred Micheala A
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BACKGROUND: Primary pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a potentially devastating condition resulting from occlusion of the pulmonary arterioles by the formation of vascular lesions. Heterozygous mutations in the gene encoding the bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II (BMPR2) have been...
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