Gene study helps understand pulmonary fibrosis
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
A study of the genomes of more than 1,500 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis found multiple genetic associations with the disease. One variant in a gene called TOLLIP was linked to an increase in the risk of death. This finding suggests that an abnormal immune response to infectious agents or environmental injury may be central to the disease.