Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk

N Shrine, AG Izquierdo, J Chen, R Packer, RJ Hall… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and
predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of …

Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets

LV Wain, N Shrine, MS Artigas, AM Erzurumluoglu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by reduced lung function
and is the third leading cause of death globally. Through genome-wide association …

Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

P Sakornsakolpat, D Prokopenko, M Lamontagne… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the leading cause of respiratory mortality
worldwide. Genetic risk loci provide new insights into disease pathogenesis. We performed …

New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

N Shrine, AL Guyatt, AM Erzurumluoglu, VE Jackson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Reduced lung function predicts mortality and is key to the diagnosis of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). In a genome-wide association study in 400,102 individuals of …

Genetics of COPD

EK Silverman - Annual review of physiology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Although chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk is strongly influenced by
cigarette smoking, genetic factors are also important determinants of COPD. In addition to …

Functional interactors of three genome-wide association study genes are differentially expressed in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease lung tissue

JD Morrow, X Zhou, T Lao, Z Jiang, DL DeMeo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In comparison to genome-wide association studies (GWAS), there has been poor replication
of gene expression studies in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We performed …

A genome-wide association study of COPD identifies a susceptibility locus on chromosome 19q13

MH Cho, PJ Castaldi, ES Wan… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The genetic risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are still largely
unknown. To date, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of limited size have identified …

Genetic advances in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Insights from COPDGene

MF Ragland, CJ Benway, SM Lutz… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common and progressive disease that
is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. For many years, knowledge of the …

Refining susceptibility loci of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with lung eqtls

M Lamontagne, C Couture, DS Postma, W Timens… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of mortality
worldwide. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified robust …

Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis

BD Hobbs, K De Jong, M Lamontagne, Y Bossé… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide.
We performed a genetic association study in 15,256 cases and 47,936 controls, with …