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A mutation in TTF1/NKX2.1 is associated with familial neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy.
Chest - 1 Oct 2013
Young Lisa R, Deutsch Gail H, Bokulic Ronald E, Brody Alan S, Nogee Lawrence M
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BACKGROUND: Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (NEHI) is a childhood diffuse lung disease of unknown etiology. We investigated the mechanism for lung disease in a subject whose clinical, imaging, and lung biopsy specimen findings were consistent with NEHI; the subject's extended family and eight other unrelated patients with NEHI were also investigated. METHODS: The proband's lung biopsy specimen (at age...
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