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SUBMITTER: Huang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4654815 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC pulmonary medicine 20151121
<h4>Background</h4>The course of disease for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is highly heterogeneous. Prognostic models rely on demographic and clinical characteristics and are not reproducible. Integrating data from genomic analyses may identify novel prognostic models and provide mechanistic insights into IPF.<h4>Methods</h4>Total RNA of peripheral blood mononuclear cells was subjected to microarray profiling in a training (45 IPF individuals) and two independent validation c ...[more]