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Exome Sequencing of Neonatal Blood Spots and the Identification of Genes Implicated in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Sept 2015
Li Jingjing, Yu Kun-Hsing, Oehlert John, Jeliffe-Pawlowski Laura L, Gould Jeffrey B, Stevenson David K, Snyder Michael, Shaw Gary M, O'Brodovich Hugh M
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RATIONALE: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a prevalent severe lung disease of premature infants, has a strong genetic component. Large-scale genome-wide association studies for common variants have not revealed its genetic basis. OBJECTIVES: Given the historical high mortality rate of extremely preterm infants who now survive and develop BPD, we hypothesized that risk loci underlying this disease are under...
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