1 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
2 Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UKGM, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany.
3 CHU de Lille, laboratoire de biochimie et biologie moléculaire (HMNO), centre de biologie pathologie, Faculté de pharmacie et EA 7364 RADEME, laboratoire de biochimie et biologie moléculaire, Université de Lille, Lille, France.
4 Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon & Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
5 CHU Lille, Service de Biochimie et Biologie moléculaire 'Hormonologie, Métabolisme-Nutrition, Oncologie', Univ. Lille, Inserm, U1286 - Infinite, F-59000 Lille, France.
6 Progenika Biopharma, a Grifols Company, Derio, Vizcaya, Spain.
7 2nd Department of Radiology, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
9 Center for Diagnosis of Inherited Alpha1-antitrypsin Deficiency, Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Pneumonology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
10 Service de pneumologie, Centre national coordinateur de référence des maladies pulmonaires rares, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR754 INRA, IVPC, Lyon, France.
11 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Electronic address: [email protected].