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Clinical and molecular features of thiazide-induced hyponatremia (2018)
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Nadal, J., Channavajjhala, S. K., Jia, W., Clayton, J., Hall, I. P., & Glover, M. (2018). Clinical and molecular features of thiazide-induced hyponatremia. Current Hypertension Reports, 20(4), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11906-018-0826-6

Hypertension affects more than 30% of the world’s adult population and thiazide (and thiazide-like) diuretics are amongst the most widely used, effective and least costly treatments available, with all-cause mortality benefits equivalent to ACE inhib... Read More about Clinical and molecular features of thiazide-induced hyponatremia.

A Genome-Wide Association Study in Hispanics/Latinos Identifies Novel Signals for Lung Function. The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (2018)
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Burkart, K. M., Sofer, T., London, S. J., Manichaikul, A., Hartwig, F. P., Yan, Q., …Barr, R. G. (2018). A Genome-Wide Association Study in Hispanics/Latinos Identifies Novel Signals for Lung Function. The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 198(2), 208-219. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201707-1493OC

Rationale: Lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are heritable traits. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous pulmonary function and COPD loci, primarily in cohorts of European ancestry.
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Targeted inhibition of Gq signaling induces airway relaxation in mouse models of asthma (2017)
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Matthey, M., Roberts, R., Seidinger, A., Simon, A., Schröder, R., Kuschak, M., …Wenzel, D. (in press). Targeted inhibition of Gq signaling induces airway relaxation in mouse models of asthma. Science Translational Medicine, 9(407), https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aag2288

Obstructive lung diseases are common causes of disability and death worldwide. A hallmark feature is aberrant activation of Gq protein–dependent signaling cascades. Currently, drugs targeting single G protein (heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide–bindin... Read More about Targeted inhibition of Gq signaling induces airway relaxation in mouse models of asthma.

Age at menarche and lung function: a Mendelian randomization study (2017)
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Gill, D., Sheehan, N. A., Wielscher, M., Shrine, N., Amaral, A. F. S., Thompson, J. R., …Minelli, C. (2017). Age at menarche and lung function: a Mendelian randomization study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 32(8), 701-710. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-017-0272-9

A trend towards earlier menarche in women has been associated with childhood factors (e.g. obesity) and hypothesised environmental exposures (e.g. endocrine disruptors present in household products). Observational evidence has shown detrimental effec... Read More about Age at menarche and lung function: a Mendelian randomization study.

Lung function associated gene Integrator Complex subunit 12 regulates protein synthesis pathways (2017)
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Kheirallah, A. K., de Moor, C. H., Faiz, A., Sayers, I., & Hall, I. P. (2017). Lung function associated gene Integrator Complex subunit 12 regulates protein synthesis pathways. BMC Genomics, 18(1), Article 248. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3628-3

BACKGROUND: Genetic studies of human lung function and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease have identified a highly significant and reproducible signal on 4q24. It remains unclear which of the two candidate genes within this locus may regulate lung... Read More about Lung function associated gene Integrator Complex subunit 12 regulates protein synthesis pathways.

Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline (2017)
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John, C., Soler Artigas, M., Hui, J., Nielsen, S. F., Rafaels, N., Paré, P. D., …Tobin, M. D. (2017). Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline. Thorax, 72(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208448

Background: Genome-wide association studies have identified numerous genetic regions that influence cross-sectional lung function. Longitudinal decline in lung function also includes a heritable component but the genetic determinants have yet to be d... Read More about Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline.

Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis (2017)
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Hobbs, B. D., de Jong, K., Lamontagne, M., Bossé, Y., Shrine, N., Artigas, M. S., …Cho, M. H. (in press). Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis. Nature Genetics, 49(3), https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3752

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 replication of select top results (P < 5 × 10(-6)) in 9,498 cases and 9,748 con... Read More about Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis.

Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls (2017)
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Artigas, M. S., Wain, L. V., Shrine, N., McKeever, T. M., Sayers, I., Hall, I. P., & Tobin, M. D. (2017). Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls. PLoS ONE, 12(1), Article e0170222. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170222

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide; smoking is the main risk factor for COPD, but genetic factors are also relevant contributors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the lung function meas... Read More about Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls.

Evidence for large-scale gene-by-smoking interaction effects on pulmonary function (2017)
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Aschard, H., Tobin, M. D., Hancock, D. B., Skurnik, D., Sood, A., James, A., …Kraft, P. (in press). Evidence for large-scale gene-by-smoking interaction effects on pulmonary function. International Journal of Epidemiology, Article dyw318. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw318

Background: Smoking is the strongest environmental risk factor for reduced pulmonary function. The genetic component of various pulmonary traits has also been demonstrated, and at least 26 loci have been reproducibly associated with either FEV1 (forc... Read More about Evidence for large-scale gene-by-smoking interaction effects on pulmonary function.

Genes associated with polymorphic variants predicting lung function are differentially expressed during human lung development (2016)
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Miller, S., Melén, E., Merid, S. K., Hall, I. P., & Sayers, I. (in press). Genes associated with polymorphic variants predicting lung function are differentially expressed during human lung development. Respiratory Research, 17(95), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-016-0410-z

Background
Recent meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within/near 54 genes associated with lung function measures. Current understanding of the contribution of these genes to human... Read More about Genes associated with polymorphic variants predicting lung function are differentially expressed during human lung development.