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Severity of Lung Function Impairment Drives Transcriptional Phenotypes of COPD and Relates to Immune and Metabolic Processes.
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - 1 Jan 2023
Negewo Netsanet A, Gibson Peter G, Simpson Jodie L, McDonald Vanessa M, Baines Katherine J
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Purpose: This study sought to characterize transcriptional phenotypes of COPD through unsupervised clustering of sputum gene expression profiles, and further investigate mechanisms underlying the characteristics of these clusters. Patients and methods: Induced sputum samples were collected from patients with stable COPD (n = 72) and healthy controls (n = 15). Induced sputum was collected for inflammatory cell...
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