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Papiris SA, Kannengiesser C, Borie R, Kolilekas L, Kallieri M, Apollonatou V, Ba I, Nathan N, Bush A, Griese M, Dieude P, Crestani B, Manali ED. Genetics in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Clinical Perspective. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:2928. [PMID: 36552935 PMCID: PMC9777433 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12122928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Unraveling the genetic background in a significant proportion of patients with both sporadic and familial IPF provided new insights into the pathogenic pathways of pulmonary fibrosis. AIM The aim of the present study is to overview the clinical significance of genetics in IPF. PERSPECTIVE It is fascinating to realize the so-far underestimated but dynamically increasing impact that genetics has on aspects related to the pathophysiology, accurate and early diagnosis, and treatment and prevention of this devastating disease. Genetics in IPF have contributed as no other in unchaining the disease from the dogma of a "a sporadic entity of the elderly, limited to the lungs" and allowed all scientists, but mostly clinicians, all over the world to consider its many aspects and "faces" in all age groups, including its co-existence with several extra pulmonary conditions from cutaneous albinism to bone-marrow and liver failure. CONCLUSION By providing additional evidence for unsuspected characteristics such as immunodeficiency, impaired mucus, and surfactant and telomere maintenance that very often co-exist through the interaction of common and rare genetic variants in the same patient, genetics have created a generous and pluralistic yet unifying platform that could lead to the understanding of the injurious and pro-fibrotic effects of many seemingly unrelated extrinsic and intrinsic offending factors. The same platform constantly instructs us about our limitations as well as about the heritability, the knowledge and the wisdom that is still missing.
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Affiliation(s)
- Spyros A. Papiris
- 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, General University Hospital “Attikon”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece
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- Département de Génétique, APHP Hôpital Bichat, Université de Paris, 75018 Paris, France
- INSERM UMR 1152, Université de Paris, 75018 Paris, France
| | - Raphael Borie
- Service de Pneumologie A, INSERM UMR_1152, Centre de Référence des Maladies Pulmonaires Rares, FHU APOLLO, APHP Hôpital Bichat, Sorbonne Université, 75018 Paris, France
| | - Lykourgos Kolilekas
- 7th Pulmonary Department, Athens Chest Hospital “Sotiria”, 11527 Athens, Greece
| | - Maria Kallieri
- 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, General University Hospital “Attikon”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece
| | - Vasiliki Apollonatou
- 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, General University Hospital “Attikon”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece
| | - Ibrahima Ba
- Département de Génétique, APHP Hôpital Bichat, Université de Paris, 75018 Paris, France
| | - Nadia Nathan
- Peditric Pulmonology Department and Reference Centre for Rare Lung Diseases RespiRare, INSERM UMR_S933 Laboratory of Childhood Genetic Diseases, Armand Trousseau Hospital, Sorbonne University and APHP, 75012 Paris, France
| | - Andrew Bush
- Paediatrics and Paediatric Respirology, Imperial College, Imperial Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal Brompton Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6NP, UK
| | - Matthias Griese
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, German Center for Lung Research, 80337 Munich, Germany
| | - Philippe Dieude
- Department of Rheumatology, INSERM U1152, APHP Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Université de Paris, 75018 Paris, France
| | - Bruno Crestani
- Service de Pneumologie A, INSERM UMR_1152, Centre de Référence des Maladies Pulmonaires Rares, FHU APOLLO, APHP Hôpital Bichat, Sorbonne Université, 75018 Paris, France
| | - Effrosyni D. Manali
- 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, General University Hospital “Attikon”, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece
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