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 …

The landscape of GWAS validation; systematic review identifying 309 validated non-coding variants across 130 human diseases

AJ Alsheikh, S Wollenhaupt, EA King, J Reeb… - BMC medical …, 2022 - Springer
Background The remarkable growth of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has
created a critical need to experimentally validate the disease-associated variants, 90% of …

MaveDB: an open-source platform to distribute and interpret data from multiplexed assays of variant effect

D Esposito, J Weile, J Shendure, LM Starita… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs), such as deep mutational scans and massively
parallel reporter assays, test thousands of sequence variants in a single experiment. Despite …

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 …

Editing GWAS: experimental approaches to dissect and exploit disease-associated genetic variation

S Rao, Y Yao, DE Bauer - Genome Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered thousands of genetic variants
that influence risk for human diseases and traits. Yet understanding the mechanisms by …

Personalized medicine for patients with COPD: where are we?

FME Franssen, P Alter, N Bar… - … journal of chronic …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Chronic airflow limitation is the common denominator of patients with chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). However, it is not possible to predict morbidity and mortality of …

Focus on your locus with a massively parallel reporter assay

JC McAfee, JL Bell, O Krupa, N Matoba… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
A growing number of variants associated with risk for neurodevelopmental disorders have
been identified by genome-wide association and whole genome sequencing studies. As …

Functional characterization of human genomic variation linked to polygenic diseases

T Fabo, P Khavari - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The burden of human disease lies predominantly in polygenic diseases. Since the early
2000s, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants and loci …

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 …

Genomic signatures of selection, local adaptation and production type characterisation of East Adriatic sheep breeds

B Lukic, I Curik, I Drzaic, V Galić, M Shihabi… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Springer
Background The importance of sheep breeding in the Mediterranean part of the eastern
Adriatic has a long tradition since its arrival during the Neolithic migrations. Sheep …