COPD Patients Display Increased Peripheral Blood Somatic Mutations Which Associate With the Prevalence of Co-morbidities

Affiliations

• ¹ Respiratory Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Group, University of Technology Sydney, Australia; GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ² Department of Hematology, Cancer Research Center Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ³ GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁵ European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: s.d.pouwels@umcg.nl.