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Christine Kim Garcia

Researcher at Columbia University

Publications -  87
Citations -  11357

Christine Kim Garcia is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pulmonary fibrosis & Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 67 publications receiving 8109 citations. Previous affiliations of Christine Kim Garcia include University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center & University of Texas at Dallas.

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Low LDL cholesterol in individuals of African descent resulting from frequent nonsense mutations in PCSK9.

TL;DR: In this article, the coding region of PCSK9 was sequenced in 128 subjects (50% African American) with low plasma levels of LDL and found two nonsense mutations (Y142X and C679X) were common in African Americans (combined frequency, 2%) but rare in European Americans (< 0.1%).
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Adult-onset pulmonary fibrosis caused by mutations in telomerase

TL;DR: Linkage to map the disease gene in two families to chromosome 5 revealed mutations in TERT or TERC that result in telomere shortening over time confer a dramatic increase in susceptibility to adult-onset IPF.
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Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pulmonary fibrosis.

TL;DR: The results suggest that genes involved in host defense, cell-cell adhesion and DNA repair contribute to risk of fibrotic IIPs.