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SUBMITTER: Hodgson U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1474126 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of human genetics 20060509 1
We performed a genomewide scan in six multiplex families with familial idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) who originated from southeastern Finland. The majority of the Finnish multiplex families were clustered in the region, and the population history suggested that the clustering might be explained by an ancestor shared among the patients. The genomewide scan identified five loci of interest. The hierarchical fine mapping in an extended data set with 24 families originating from the same geogr ...[more]