Genetics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: understanding the pathobiology and heterogeneity of a complex disorder

MH Cho, BD Hobbs, EK Silverman - The Lancet Respiratory …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a deadly and highly morbid disease.
Susceptibility to and heterogeneity of COPD are incompletely explained by environmental …

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 …

Cigarette smoke exposure and inflammatory signaling increase the expression of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in the respiratory tract

JC Smith, EL Sausville, V Girish, ML Yuan… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The factors mediating fatal SARS-CoV-2 infections are poorly understood. Here, we show
that cigarette smoke causes a dose-dependent upregulation of angiotensin converting …

Inference of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with deep learning on raw spirograms identifies new genetic loci and improves risk models

J Cosentino, B Behsaz, B Alipanahi, ZR McCaw… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide,
is highly heritable. While COPD is clinically defined by applying thresholds to summary …

The arginine methyltransferase PRMT7 promotes extravasation of monocytes resulting in tissue injury in COPD

G Günes Günsel, TM Conlon, A Jeridi, R Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Extravasation of monocytes into tissue and to the site of injury is a fundamental
immunological process, which requires rapid responses via post translational modifications …

Gene co-expression in the interactome: moving from correlation toward causation via an integrated approach to disease module discovery

P Paci, G Fiscon, F Conte, RS Wang, L Farina… - NPJ systems biology …, 2021 - nature.com
In this study, we integrate the outcomes of co-expression network analysis with the human
interactome network to predict novel putative disease genes and modules. We first apply the …

Identification of key genes related to lung squamous cell carcinoma using bioinformatics analysis

M Gao, W Kong, Z Huang, Z Xie - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is often diagnosed at the advanced stage with poor
prognosis. The mechanisms of its pathogenesis and prognosis require urgent elucidation …

Long noncoding RNA IL6‐AS1 is highly expressed in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is associated with interleukin 6 by targeting miR‐149‐5p and early B …

E Yi, J Zhang, M Zheng, Y Zhang… - Clinical and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a complex condition with multiple etiologies,
including inflammation. We identified a novel long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), interleukin 6 …

Mitochondria: at the crossroads of regulating lung epithelial cell function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

M Aghapour, AHV Remels… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Disturbances in mitochondrial structure and function in lung epithelial cells have been
implicated in the pathogenesis of various lung diseases, including chronic obstructive …

Precision approaches to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management

M Moll, EK Silverman - Annual Review of Medicine, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. COPD heterogeneity has hampered progress in developing pharmacotherapies …