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Smoking Dysregulates the Human Airway Basal Cell Transcriptome at COPD Risk Locus 19q13.2
3 Feb 2014
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and candidate gene studies have identified a number of risk loci associated with the smoking-related disease COPD, a disorder that originates in the airway epithelium. Since airway basal cell (BC) stem/progenitor cells exhibit the earliest abnormalities associated with smoking (hyperplasia, squamous metaplasia), we hypothesized that smoker BC have a dysregulated...
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