The MUC5B variant is associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis but not with systemic sclerosis interstitial lung disease in the European Caucasian population.

A polymorphism on the MUC5B promoter (rs35705950) has been associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) but not with systemic sclerosis (SSc) with interstitial lung disease (ILD). We genotyped the MUC5B promoter in the first 142 patients of the French national prospective cohort of IPF, in 98...

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Main Authors: Raphael Borie, Bruno Crestani, Philippe Dieude, Hilario Nunes, Yannick Allanore, Caroline Kannengiesser, Paolo Airo, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Benoit Wallaert, Dominique Israel-Biet, Jacques Cadranel, Vincent Cottin, Steven Gazal, Anna L Peljto, John Varga, David A Schwartz, Dominique Valeyre, Bernard Grandchamp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23940607/pdf/?tool=EBI