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Genetic predisposition to respiratory diseases: infiltrative lung diseases.
Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases - 1 Jan 2007
Steele Mark P, Brown Kevin K
Abstract excerpt
The availability of high-throughput genotyping and large collaborative clinical networks creating well-characterized patient populations with DNA repositories has facilitated genome-wide scans and candidate gene studies to identify susceptibility alleles for the development of interstitial lung disease. The association of pulmonary fibrosis with rare inherited disorders, and the variable susceptibility of inbred...
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