Rare surfactant‐related variants in familial and sporadic pulmonary fibrosis

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The role of constitutional genetic defects in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is increasingly appreciated. Monogenic disorders associated with IPF affect two pathways: telomere maintenance, accounting for approximately 10% of all patients with IPF, and surfactant biology, responsible for 1%-3% of cases and often co-occurring with lung cancer. We examined the prevalence of rare variants in five...

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