title: What silent mutations say about the human airways.
abstract: A technique for tracing stem cells and their descendants reveals how the lining of the airways is maintained, and how this process is altered in smokers.
authors.affiliation: Matthew L Donne is at the Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, United States.
authors.forename: Matthew L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Donne
authors.forename: Jason R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rock
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014132:Trachea / Q000378:metabolism*
keywords: Human lineage tracing; airways; lung basal progenitor stem cells; mtDNA mutations; stem cells; stochastic homeostasis