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Peripheral blood gene expression as a novel genomic biomarker in complicated sarcoidosis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Zhou Tong, Zhang Wei, Sweiss Nadera J, Chen Edward S, Moller David R, Knox Kenneth S, Ma Shwu-Fan, Wade Michael S, Noth Imre, Machado Roberto F, Garcia Joe G N
Abstract excerpt
Sarcoidosis, a systemic granulomatous syndrome invariably affecting the lung, typically spontaneously remits but in ~20% of cases progresses with severe lung dysfunction or cardiac and neurologic involvement (complicated sarcoidosis). Unfortunately, current biomarkers fail to distinguish patients with remitting (uncomplicated) sarcoidosis from other fibrotic lung disorders, and fail to identify individuals at...
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