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Inhalation of diesel exhaust and allergen alters human bronchial epithelium DNA methylation (2016)
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Clifford, R. L., Jones, M. J., MacIsaac, J. L., McEwen, L. M., Goodman, S. J., Mostafavi, S., Kobor, M. S., & Carlsten, C. (2017). Inhalation of diesel exhaust and allergen alters human bronchial epithelium DNA methylation. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 139(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2016.03.046

Background

Allergic disease affects 30% to 40% of the world's population, and its development is determined by the interplay between environmental and inherited factors. Air pollution, primarily consisting of diesel exhaust emissions, has increase... Read More about Inhalation of diesel exhaust and allergen alters human bronchial epithelium DNA methylation.

Circulating desmosine levels do not predict emphysema progression but are associated with cardiovascular risk and mortality in COPD (2016)
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Rabinovich, R. A., Miller, B. E., Wrobel, K., Ranjit, K., Williams, M. C., Drost,, E., Edwards, L. D., Lomas, D. A., Rennard, S. I., Agustí, A., Tal-Singer, R., Vestbo, J., Wouters, E. F., John, M., van Beek, E. J., Murchison, J. T., Bolton, C. E., MacNee, W., & Huang, J. T. (in press). Circulating desmosine levels do not predict emphysema progression but are associated with cardiovascular risk and mortality in COPD. European Respiratory Journal, 47(5), https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01824-2015

Elastin degradation is a key feature of emphysema and may have a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Circulating desmosine is a specific biomarker of elastin degradation. We invest... Read More about Circulating desmosine levels do not predict emphysema progression but are associated with cardiovascular risk and mortality in COPD.

Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor gene deletion alters bleomycin-induced lung injury, but not development of pulmonary fibrosis (2016)
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Habgood, A., Tatler, A. L., Porte, J., Wahl, S. M., Laurent, G. J., John, A. E., Johnson, S. R., & Jenkins, G. (in press). Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor gene deletion alters bleomycin-induced lung injury, but not development of pulmonary fibrosis. Laboratory Investigation, https://doi.org/10.1038/labinvest.2016.40

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive, fatal disease with limited treatment options. Protease-mediated transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) activation has been proposed as a pathogenic mechanism of lung fibrosis. Protease activity in the lun... Read More about Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor gene deletion alters bleomycin-induced lung injury, but not development of pulmonary fibrosis.

Traditional and emerging indicators of cardiovascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2016)
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John, M., McKeever, T. M., Haddad, M. A., Hall, I. P., Sayers, I., Cockcroft, J. R., & Bolton, C. E. (2016). Traditional and emerging indicators of cardiovascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1479972316636995

With the increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), there is a priority to identify those patients at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Stable patients with COPD (n = 1... Read More about Traditional and emerging indicators of cardiovascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

A rare missense mutation in CHRNA4 associates with smoking behavior and its consequences (2016)
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Thorgeirsson, T., Steinberg, S., Reginsson, G., Bjornsdottir, G., Rafnar, T., Jonsdottir, I., Helgadottir, A., Gretarsdottir, S., Helgadottir, H., Jonsson, S., Matthiasson, S., Gislason, T., Tyrfingsson, T., Gudbjartsson, T., Isaksson, H., Hardardottir, H., Sigvaldason, A., Kiemeney, L., Haugen, A., Zienolddiny, S., …Stefansson, K. (in press). A rare missense mutation in CHRNA4 associates with smoking behavior and its consequences. Molecular Psychiatry, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.13

Using Icelandic whole-genome sequence data and an imputation approach we searched for rare sequence variants in CHRNA4 and tested them for association with nicotine dependence. We show that carriers of a rare missense variant (allele frequency = 0.24... Read More about A rare missense mutation in CHRNA4 associates with smoking behavior and its consequences.

Effect of smoking status on the efficacy of the SMART regimen in high risk asthma (2016)
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Pilcher, J., Patel, M., Reddel, H. K., Pritchard, A., Black, P., Shaw, D., Holt, S., Weatherall, M., & Beasley, R. (2016). Effect of smoking status on the efficacy of the SMART regimen in high risk asthma. Respirology, 21(5), 858-866. https://doi.org/10.1111/resp.12740

Background and objective: The optimal management of people with asthma with a significant smoking history is uncertain. The aim of this study was to determine whether the efficacy/safety profile of single combination inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long... Read More about Effect of smoking status on the efficacy of the SMART regimen in high risk asthma.

Translating lung function genome-wide association study (GWAS) findings: new insights for lung biology (2016)
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Kheirallah, A. K., Miller, S., Hall, I. P., & Sayers, I. (2016). Translating lung function genome-wide association study (GWAS) findings: new insights for lung biology. Current Advances in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.adgen.2015.12.002

Chronic respiratory diseases are a major cause of worldwide mortality and morbidity. Although hereditary severe deficiency of α1 antitrypsin (A1AD) has been established to cause emphysema, A1AD accounts for only ∼1% of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary D... Read More about Translating lung function genome-wide association study (GWAS) findings: new insights for lung biology.

The challenge of measuring IL-33 in serum using commercial ELISA: lessons from asthma (2016)
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Ketelaar, M. E., Nawijn, M. C., Shaw, D. E., Koppelman, G. H., & Sayers, I. (2016). The challenge of measuring IL-33 in serum using commercial ELISA: lessons from asthma. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 46(6), 884-887. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.12718

Background
Interleukin-33 (IL-33) has been subject of extensive study in the context of inflammatory disorders, particularly in asthma. Many human biological samples, including serum, have been used to determine the protein levels of IL-33, aiming t... Read More about The challenge of measuring IL-33 in serum using commercial ELISA: lessons from asthma.

Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12 (2016)
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Jackson, V. E., Ntalla, I., Sayers, I., Morris, R., Whincup, P., Casas, J.-P., Amuzu, A., Choi, M., Dale, C., Kumari, M., Engmann, J., Kalsheker, N., Chappell, S., Guetta-Baranes, T., McKeever, T. M., Palmer, C. N., Tavendale, R., Holloway, J. W., Sayer, A. A., Dennison, E. M., …Wain, L. V. (in press). Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12. Thorax, 71(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207876

Background

Several regions of the genome have shown to be associated with COPD in genome-wide association studies of common variants.

Objective

To determine rare and potentially functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated... Read More about Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12.

Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media (2016)
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Jin, C., Langston, P. A., Pavlovskaya, G. E., Hall, M. R., & Rigby, S. P. (2016). Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media. Physical Review E, 93(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.013122

© 2016 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and t... Read More about Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media.