Peripheral blood gene expression as a novel genomic biomarker in complicated sarcoidosis.

Sarcoidosis, a systemic granulomatous syndrome invariably affecting the lung, typically spontaneously remits but in ~20% of cases progresses with severe lung dysfunction or cardiac and neurologic involvement (complicated sarcoidosis). Unfortunately, current biomarkers fail to distinguish patients wi...

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Main Authors: Tong Zhou, Wei Zhang, Nadera J Sweiss, Edward S Chen, David R Moller, Kenneth S Knox, Shwu-Fan Ma, Michael S Wade, Imre Noth, Roberto F Machado, Joe G N Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3440319?pdf=render