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Genetic basis for childhood interstitial lung disease among Japanese infants and children.
Pediatric research - 1 Feb 2018
Hayasaka Itaru, Cho Kazutoshi, Akimoto Takuma, Ikeda Masahiko, Uzuki Yutaka, Yamada Masafumi, Nakata Koh, Furuta Itsuko, Ariga Tadashi, Minakami Hisanori
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BackgroundGenetic variants responsible for childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) have not been studied extensively in Japanese patients.MethodsThe study population consisted of 62 Japanese chILD patients. Twenty-one and four patients had pulmonary hypertension resistant to treatment (PH) and hypothyroidism, respectively. Analyses of genetic variants were performed in all 62 patients for SFTPC and ABCA3, in...
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