Genetics of chronic respiratory disease

I Sayers, C John, J Chen, IP Hall - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
asthma and interstitial lung diseases are frequently occurring disorders with a polygenic …

Lung-function trajectories: relevance and implementation in clinical practice

E Melén, R Faner, JP Allinson, D Bui, A Bush… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Lung development starts in utero and continues during childhood through to adolescence,
reaching its peak in early adulthood. This growth is followed by gradual decline due to …

Unsupervised representation learning on high-dimensional clinical data improves genomic discovery and prediction

T Yun, J Cosentino, B Behsaz, ZR McCaw, D Hill… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Although high-dimensional clinical data (HDCD) are increasingly available in biobank-scale
datasets, their use for genetic discovery remains challenging. Here we introduce an …

Genotyping and population characteristics of the China Kadoorie Biobank

RG Walters, IY Millwood, K Lin, DS Valle, P McDonnell… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) is a population-based prospective cohort of>
512,000 adults recruited from 2004 to 2008 from 10 geographically diverse regions across …

Pathophysiology and genomics of bronchiectasis

L Perea, R Faner, JD Chalmers… - European Respiratory …, 2024 - publications.ersnet.org
Bronchiectasis is a complex and heterogeneous inflammatory chronic respiratory disease
with an unknown cause in around 30–40% of patients. The presence of airway infection …

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 …

Crosstalk between epitranscriptomic and epigenomic modifications and its implication in human diseases

C Li, K Chen, Q Fang, S Shi, J Nan, J He, Y Yin, X Li… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Crosstalk between N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) and epigenomes is crucial for gene
regulation, but its regulatory directionality and disease significance remain unclear. Here …

Associations of combined phenotypic ageing and genetic risk with incidence of chronic respiratory diseases in the UK Biobank: a prospective cohort study

T Wang, W Duan, X Jia, X Huang, Y Liu… - European …, 2024 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background Accelerated biological ageing has been associated with an increased risk of
several chronic respiratory diseases. However, the associations between phenotypic age, a …

Does chronic obstructive pulmonary disease originate from different cell types?

Y Tesfaigzi, JL Curtis, I Petrache… - American journal of …, 2023 - atsjournals.org
The onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is heterogeneous, and current
approaches to define distinct disease phenotypes are lacking. In addition to clinical …

Proteomic networks and related genetic variants associated with smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

IR Konigsberg, T Vu, W Liu, EM Litkowski, KA Pratte… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background Studies have identified individual blood biomarkers associated with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and related phenotypes. However, complex …