MUC5B and pulmonary fibrosis: The results for MUC5B are less clear, since there is not a direct evidence in the literature of a link with oncogenic processes, but only with susceptibility and survival in pulmonary fibrosis through germline regulatory variants (Seibold et al., 2011; Fingerlin et al., 2013; Noth et al., 2013; Peljto et al., 2013; Allen et al., 2017).