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Transforming growth factor-beta gene polymorphisms in sarcoidosis patients with and without fibrosis.
Chest - 1 Jun 2006
Kruit Adrian, Grutters Jan C, Ruven Henk J T, van Moorsel Coline H M, Weiskirchen Ralf, Mengsteab Senait, van den Bosch Jules M M
Abstract excerpt
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Pulmonary fibrosis develops in approximately 25% of patients with chronic sarcoidosis. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 plays a central role in fibrosis, and accruing reports address the implication of TGF-beta2 and TGF-beta3 in this process. We determined whether single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TGF-beta1, TGF-beta2, and TGF-beta3 genes might contribute to pulmonary fibrosis...
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