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Systems Medicine for Lung Diseases: Phenotypes and Precision Medicine in Cancer, Infection, and Allergy.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2016
Schmeck Bernd, Bertrams Wilhelm, Lai Xin, Vera Julio
Abstract excerpt
Lung diseases cause an enormous socioeconomic burden. Four of them are among the ten most important causes of deaths worldwide: Pneumonia has the highest death toll of all infectious diseases, lung cancer kills the most people of all malignant proliferative disorders, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ranks third in mortality among the chronic noncommunicable diseases, and tuberculosis is still one of...
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