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Genes, other than Muc5b, are associated with bleomycin-induced lung injury.
Communications biology - 12 May 2026
Wang Yingping, Hennessy Corinne, Dobrinskikh Evgenia, Humphries Stephen M, Hatakka Kristina, Ackert-Bicknell Cheryl L, Godfrey Dana A, Kelada Samir N P, Keele Gregory R, Cardwell Jonathan, Peljto Anna, Clouthier David E, Yang Ivana V, Schwartz David A
Abstract excerpt
The MUC5B promoter variant rs35705950 is the dominant risk factor for the development of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), yet its low penetrance remains unexplained. All eight founder strains of the Diversity Outbred (DO) mouse population carry the risk allele at the orthologous site, yet exhibited variable bleomycin-induced MUC5B expression and fibrosis severity. Herein, using the DO bleomycin model, we find...
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