Additional support for our finding of an aberrantly regulated ISG program in fibrotic lung fibroblasts, comes from work on two of the signature genes from this group, CXCL10 (IP10) and STAT1. IP10 levels were found to be downregulated in IPF lung fibroblasts by Keane et al. [48]. Here, STAT1 is linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.