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Lethal Interstitial Lung Disease Associated with a Gain-of-Function Mutation in IFIH1

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Funding

This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20K17897 to KY) (20H03782 to NS) (16H05355 and 19H03620 to SO), Promotion of Joint International Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (22KK0113 to SO), and the Practical Research Project for Rare/Intractable Diseases from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, AMED (grant number: JP20ek0109480) to S.O.

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All authors contributed to the accrual of subjects and/or data. SO contributed to the conception and design of the study. YK and TD drafted the manuscript. YK and YI performed IFN-α production experiment. YK, TD, VJA, and NS performed the clinical work and collected data. All authors have revised the manuscript for important intellectual content and approved the final version.

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Correspondence to Takehiko Doi.

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The study was approved by the Ethics Committees and Institutional Review Board of Hiroshima University. All experiments were carried out with adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from the patient’s family.

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Kida, Y., Doi, T., Imanaka, Y. et al. Lethal Interstitial Lung Disease Associated with a Gain-of-Function Mutation in IFIH1. J Clin Immunol 43, 1143–1146 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-023-01494-8

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