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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 172, Issue 9, Pages 1146-1152Publisher
AMER THORACIC SOC
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200408-1104OC
Keywords
cigarette smoking; familial pulmonary fibrosis; genetics; pulmonary fibrosis
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- NCRR NIH HHS [1 P41 RR03655, M01 RR000030-430738, P41 RR003655] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL67467] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [ES011961, ES11375] Funding Source: Medline
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Rationale: Several lines of evidence suggest that genetic factors and environmental exposures play a role in the development of pulmonary fibrosis. Objectives: We evaluated families with 2 or more cases of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia among first-degree family members (familial interstitial pneumonia, or FIP), and identified 111 families with FIP having 309 affected and 360 unaffected individuals. Methods: The presence of probable or definite FIP was based on medical record review in 28 cases (9.1%); clinical history, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide (D-Lco), and chest X-ray in 16 cases (5.2%); clinical history, D-Lco, and high-resolution computed tomography chest scan in 191 cases (61.8%); clinical history and surgical lung biopsy in 56 cases (18.1%); and clinical history and autopsy in 18 cases (5.8%). Results: Older age (68.3 vs. 53.1; p < 0.0001), male sex (55.7 vs. 37.2%; p < 0.0001), and having ever smoked cigarettes (67.3 vs. 34.1%; p < 0.0001) were associated with the development of FIP. After controlling for age and sex, having ever smoked cigarettes remained strongly associated with the development of FIP (odds ratio(adj), 3.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.3-9.8). Evidence of aggregation of disease was highly significant (p < 0.001) among sibling pairs, and 20 pedigrees demonstrated vertical transmission, consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance. Forty-five percent of pedigrees demonstrated phenotypic heterogeneity, with some pedigrees demonstrating several subtypes of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia occurring within the same families. Conclusions: These findings suggest that RIP may be caused by an interaction between a specific environmental exposure and a gene (or genes) that predisposes to the development of several subtypes of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia.
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