A Candidate Gene For Familial Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Identified

... ELMOD2-gene is a prime candidate gene for familial idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, suggests the recent study published by the researchers at the University and University Hospital of Helsinki, Finland. (Am J Hum Genet. 2006 Jul;79(1):149-54. Epub 2006 May 9) Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, late-onset disease of lung parenchyma with unknown etiology. [click link for full article] ...