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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights into the genetics of smoking behaviour, lung function, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (UK BiLEVE): a genetic association study in …

LV Wain, N Shrine, S Miller, VE Jackson… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Understanding the genetic basis of airflow obstruction and smoking behaviour
is key to determining the pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) …

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 …

Operating characteristics of the rank-based inverse normal transformation for quantitative trait analysis in genome-wide association studies

ZR McCaw, JM Lane, R Saxena, S Redline, X Lin - Biometrics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative traits analyzed in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) are often
nonnormally distributed. For such traits, association tests based on standard linear …

Risk loci for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis

MH Cho, MLN McDonald, X Zhou… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background The genetic risk factors for susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) are still largely unknown. Additional genetic variants are likely to be …

Epidemiology of lung cancer

AG Schwartz, ML Cote - Lung cancer and personalized medicine: Current …, 2016 - Springer
Lung cancer continues to be one of the most common causes of cancer death despite
understanding the major cause of the disease: cigarette smoking. Smoking increases lung …

The Rotterdam Study: 2014 objectives and design update

A Hofman, SD Murad, CM van Duijn, OH Franco… - European journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Rotterdam Study is a prospective cohort study ongoing since 1990 in the city of
Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The study targets cardiovascular, endocrine, hepatic …

Recent updates on electronic cigarette aerosol and inhaled nicotine effects on periodontal and pulmonary tissues

F Javed, SV Kellesarian, IK Sundar… - Oral …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
E‐cigarette‐derived inhaled nicotine may contribute to the pathogenesis of periodontal and
pulmonary diseases in particular via lung inflammation, injurious, and dysregulated repair …

A genome-wide association study identifies risk loci for spirometric measures among smokers of European and African ancestry

SM Lutz, MH Cho, K Young, CP Hersh, PJ Castaldi… - BMC genetics, 2015 - Springer
Background Pulmonary function decline is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality
among smokers. Post bronchodilator FEV 1 and FEV 1/FVC ratio are considered the …