Peripheral Blood Gene Expression as a Novel Genomic Biomarker in Complicated Sarcoidosis

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

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044818

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Peripheral Blood Gene Expression as a Novel Genomic Biomarker in Complicated Sarcoidosis

Tong Zhou ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Zhou, Wei Zhang

Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Wei Zhang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Zhou, Wei Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Nadera J. Sweiss,

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Edward S. Chen,

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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David R. Moller,

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Kenneth S. Knox,

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, United States of America
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Shwu-Fan Ma,

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Michael S. Wade,

Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Imre Noth,

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Roberto F. Machado,

Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Joe G. N. Garcia

* E-mail: jggarcia@uic.edu

Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Peripheral Blood Gene Expression as a Novel Genomic Biomarker in Complicated Sarcoidosis

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

Published: September 12, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044818

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