Article
Molecular biomarkers for quantitative and discrete COPD phenotypes.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Mar 2009
Bhattacharya Soumyaroop, Srisuma Sorachai, Demeo Dawn L, Shapiro Steven D, Bueno Raphael, Silverman Edwin K, Reilly John J, Mariani Thomas J
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory lung disorder with complex pathological features and largely unknown etiology. The identification of biomarkers for this disease could aid the development of methods to facilitate earlier diagnosis, the classification of disease subt...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Biomarkers
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Humans
- Microarray Analysis
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- RNA
- Reproducibility of Results