Susceptibility to hard metal lung disease is strongly associated with the presence of glutamate 69 in HLA-DP beta chain.

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Clinical, epidemiological and experimental data indicate that inhaled metal dust containing cobalt may produce an interstitial lung disease termed "hard metal disease" (HMD). Some aspects of this pathology such as the lack of correlation with dose exposure, the low frequency of the disease and th...

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