The preservation of the molecular components of the lung samples has enabled the understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms which contribute to chronic lung disease through candidate gene studies, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), eQTL analyses (expression quantitative trait localization), whole-genome expression and epigenetic studies (1-4)
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