Mitochondrial Haplogroups and Risk of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a serious and often fatal disease. It is a panvasculopathy of the pulmonary microcirculation characterized by vasoconstriction and arterial obstruction due to vascular proliferation and remodeling and ultimately right ventricular failure. Mitochondrial dysfun...

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Main Authors: Samar Farha, Bo Hu, Suzy Comhair, Joe Zein, Raed Dweik, Serpil C Erzurum, Micheala A Aldred
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156042