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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related phenotypes: polygenic risk scores in population-based and case-control cohorts

M Moll, P Sakornsakolpat, N Shrine… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Genetic factors influence chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk,
but the individual variants that have been identified have small effects. We hypothesised that …

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 …

Imaging advances in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Insights from the genetic epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPDGene) study

SP Bhatt, GR Washko, EA Hoffman… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
The Genetic Epidemiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPDGene) study,
which began in 2007, is an ongoing multicenter observational cohort study of more than …

COPD as an endothelial disorder: endothelial injury linking lesions in the lungs and other organs?(2017 Grover Conference Series)

F Polverino, BR Celli, CA Owen - Pulmonary Circulation, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by chronic expiratory
airflow obstruction that is not fully reversible. COPD patients develop varying degrees of …

Genome-wide association analysis of 350 000 Caucasians from the UK Biobank identifies novel loci for asthma, hay fever and eczema

Å Johansson, M Rask-Andersen… - Human molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Even though heritability estimates suggest that the risk of asthma, hay fever and eczema is
largely due to genetic factors, previous studies have not explained a large part of the …

Lung development and aging

A Bush - Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2016 - atsjournals.org
The onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can arise either from failure to
attain the normal spirometric plateau or from an accelerated decline in lung function. Despite …