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Defining the Blood Cytokine Profile in Asthma to Understand Asthma Heterogeneity (2025)
Journal Article
Bingham, K., Zahrani, Y. A., Stewart, I., Portelli, M. A., Fogarty, A., McKeever, T. M., Singapuri, A., Heaney, L. G., Mansur, A. H., Chaudhuri, R., Thomson, N. C., Holloway, J. W., Howarth, P. H., Djukanovic, R., Blakey, J. D., Chauhan, A., Brightling, C. E., Pogson, Z. E., Hall, I. P., Martinez-Pomares, L., …Sayers, I. (2025). Defining the Blood Cytokine Profile in Asthma to Understand Asthma Heterogeneity. Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, 13(3), Article e70116. https://doi.org/10.1002/iid3.70116

Background:

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterized by overlapping clinical and inflammatory features.

Objective:

This study aimed to provide insight into the systemic inflammatory profile in asthma, greater understanding of asthma... Read More about Defining the Blood Cytokine Profile in Asthma to Understand Asthma Heterogeneity.

Epithelial Interleukin‐1 Receptor‐Like‐1 Activation Is Contingent on Interleukin‐33 Isoforms and Asthma‐Related Receptor Variation (2024)
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Portelli, M., Ketelaar, M., Bates, S., Csomor, E., Shaw, D., Emsley, J., Brightling, C., Hall, I., Affleck, K., Edwards, M., Nawijn, M., Koppelman, G., Van Oosterhout, A., & Sayers, I. (2024). Epithelial Interleukin‐1 Receptor‐Like‐1 Activation Is Contingent on Interleukin‐33 Isoforms and Asthma‐Related Receptor Variation. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 54(12), 984-985. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14562

Introduction: The interleukin-33/interleukin-1 receptor-like-1 (IL-33/IL1RL1) signalling pathway is implicated in asthma pathogenesis, with IL1RL1 nonsynonymous genetic polymorphisms associated with disease risk. We aimed to determine these variants'... Read More about Epithelial Interleukin‐1 Receptor‐Like‐1 Activation Is Contingent on Interleukin‐33 Isoforms and Asthma‐Related Receptor Variation.

Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is a critical regulator of inflammatory signalling through toll‐like receptors 4 and 7/8 in murine and human lungs (2024)
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Sayers, I., Thakker, D., Billington, C., Kreideweiss, S., Grundl, M. A., Bouyssou, T., Thamm, S., Kreuz, S., & Hall, I. P. (2024). Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is a critical regulator of inflammatory signalling through toll‐like receptors 4 and 7/8 in murine and human lungs. British Journal of Pharmacology, 181(22), 4647-4657. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.16509

Background and Purpose: Toll‐like receptors 4 (TLR4) and TLR7/TLR8 play an important role in mediating the inflammatory effects of bacterial and viral pathogens. Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is an important regulator of signalli... Read More about Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is a critical regulator of inflammatory signalling through toll‐like receptors 4 and 7/8 in murine and human lungs.

DYNamic Assessment of Multi‐Organ level dysfunction in patients recovering from COVID‐19: DYNAMO COVID‐19 (2024)
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Gupta, A., Nicholas, R., McGing, J. J., Nixon, A. V., Mallinson, J. E., McKeever, T. M., Bradley, C. R., Piasecki, M., Cox, E. F., Bonnington, J., Lord, J. M., Brightling, C. E., Evans, R. A., Hall, I. P., Francis, S. T., Greenhaff, P. L., & Bolton, C. E. (2024). DYNamic Assessment of Multi‐Organ level dysfunction in patients recovering from COVID‐19: DYNAMO COVID‐19. Experimental Physiology, 109(8), 1274-1291. https://doi.org/10.1113/ep091590

We evaluated the impacts of COVID-19 on multi-organ and metabolic function in patients following severe hospitalised infection compared to controls. Patients (n = 21) without previous diabetes, cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease were recruited... Read More about DYNamic Assessment of Multi‐Organ level dysfunction in patients recovering from COVID‐19: DYNAMO COVID‐19.

Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2024)
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Peggs, Z. J., Brooke, J. P., Bolton, C. E., Hall, I. P., Francis, S. T., & Gowland, P. A. (2024). Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 61(2), 663-675. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.29444

Background: In respiratory medicine, there is a need for sensitive measures of regional lung function that can be performed using standard imaging technology, without the need for inhaled or intravenous contrast agents. Purpose: To describe VOxel‐wis... Read More about Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Author Correction: Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk (2023)
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Shrine, N., Izquierdo, A. G., Chen, J., Packer, R., Hall, R. J., Guyatt, A. L., Batini, C., Thompson, R. J., Pavuluri, C., Malik, V., Hobbs, B. D., Moll, M., Kim, W., Tal-Singer, R., Bakke, P., Fawcett, K. A., John, C., Coley, K., Piga, N. N., Pozarickij, A., …Consortium Lead Principal Investigators. (2023). Author Correction: Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk. Nature Genetics, 55, 1778–1779. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01531-7

Correction to: Nature Genetics, published online 13 March 2023. In the version of the article initially published, the sample sizes in the main text and Supplementary Tables 1 and 2 were incorrect. In the abstract, the last paragraph of the Introduct... Read More about Author Correction: Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.

Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation (2023)
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Rajasekar, P., Hall, R. J., Binaya, K., Mahapatra, P. S., Puppala, S. P., Thakker, D., MacIsaac, J. L., Lin, D., Kobor, M., Bolton, C. E., Sayers, I., Hall, I. P., & Clifford, R. L. (2023). Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation. Environmental Pollution, 337, Article 122561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122561

Household air pollution caused by inefficient cooking practices causes 4 million deaths a year worldwide. In Nepal, 86% of the rural population use solid fuels for cooking. Over 25% of premature deaths associated with air pollution are respiratory in... Read More about Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation.

Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection (2023)
Journal Article
Packer, R. J., Shrine, N., Hall, R., Melbourne, C. A., Thompson, R., Williams, A. T., Paynton, M. L., Guyatt, A. L., Allen, R. J., Lee, P. H., John, C., Campbell, A., Hayward, C., de Vries, M., Vonk, J. M., Davitte, J., Hessel, E., Michalovich, D., Betts, J. C., Sayers, I., …Wain, L. V. (2023). Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection. European Respiratory Journal, 61(6), Article 2201667. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01667-2022

Chronic sputum production impacts on quality of life and is a feature of many respiratory diseases. Identification of the genetic variants associated with chronic sputum production in a disease agnostic sample could improve understanding of its cause... Read More about Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection.

Evaluation of outpatient treatment for non-hospitalised patients with COVID-19: The experience of a regional centre in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Goodwin, A. T., Thompson, J. S., & Hall, I. P. (2023). Evaluation of outpatient treatment for non-hospitalised patients with COVID-19: The experience of a regional centre in the UK. PLoS ONE, 18(3), Article e0281915. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281915

Introduction Antivirals, such as molnupiravir, and SARS-CoV-2 neutralising monoclonal antibodies (nMAbs), such as sotrovimab, reduced the risk of hospitalisation and death in clinical trials of high-risk non-hospitalised patients with Covid-19. Howev... Read More about Evaluation of outpatient treatment for non-hospitalised patients with COVID-19: The experience of a regional centre in the UK.

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk (2023)
Journal Article
Shrine, N., Izquierdo, A. G., Chen, J., Packer, R., Hall, R. J., Guyatt, A. L., Batini, C., Thompson, R. J., Pavuluri, C., Malik, V., Hobbs, B. D., Moll, M., Kim, W., Tal-Singer, R., Bakke, P., Fawcett, K. A., John, C., Coley, K., Piga, N. N., Pozarickij, A., …The Qatar Genome Program Research (QGPR) Consortium. (2023). Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk. Nature Genetics, 55(3), 410-422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01314-0

Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of lung function to date, comprising 580,869 participants, we identified 1,020... Read More about Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.

Residual Lung Abnormalities after COVID-19 Hospitalization Interim Analysis of the UKILD Post-COVID-19 Study (2023)
Journal Article
Stewart, I., Jacob, J., George, P. M., Molyneaux, P. L., Porter, J. C., Allen, R. J., Aslani, S., Baillie, J. K., Barratt, S. L., Beirne, P., Bianchi, S. M., Blaikley, J. F., Chalmers, J. D., Chambers, R. C., Chaudhuri, N., Coleman, C., Collier, G., Denneny, E. K., Docherty, A., Elneima, O., …Jenkins, R. G. (2023). Residual Lung Abnormalities after COVID-19 Hospitalization Interim Analysis of the UKILD Post-COVID-19 Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 207(6), 693 - 703. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202203-0564oc

Rationale:

Shared symptoms and genetic architecture between coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and lung fibrosis suggest severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection may lead to progressive lung damage.

Objectives:

T... Read More about Residual Lung Abnormalities after COVID-19 Hospitalization Interim Analysis of the UKILD Post-COVID-19 Study.

Association study of human leukocyte antigen variants and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (2023)
Journal Article
Guillen-Guio, B., Paynton, M. L., Allen, R. J., Chin, D. P., Donoghue, L. J., Stockwell, A., Leavy, O. C., Hernandez-Beeftink, T., Reynolds, C., Cullinan, P., Martinez, F., Booth, H. L., Fahy, W. A., Hall, I. P., Hart, S. P., Hill, M. R., Hirani, N., Hubbard, R. B., McAnulty, R. J., Millar, A. B., …Hollox, E. J. (2024). Association study of human leukocyte antigen variants and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. ERJ Open Research, 10(1), 00553-2023. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00553-2023

Introduction Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic interstitial pneumonia marked by progressive lung fibrosis and a poor prognosis. Recent studies have highlighted the potential role of infection in the pathogenesis of IPF, and a prior ass... Read More about Association study of human leukocyte antigen variants and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

PCSK6 and Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (2023)
Journal Article
Oldham, J. M., Allen, R. J., Lorenzo-Salazar, J. M., Molyneaux, P. L., Ma, S.-F., Joseph, C., Kim, J. S., Guillen-Guio, B., Hernández-Beeftink, T., Kropski, J. A., Huang, Y., Lee, C. T., Adegunsoye, A., Pugashetti, J. V., Linderholm, A. L., Vo, V., Strek, M. E., Jou, J., Muñoz-Barrera, A., Rubio-Rodriguez, L. A., …Noth, I. (2023). PCSK6 and Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 207(11), 1515–1524. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202205-0845oc

Rationale:

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating disease characterized by limited treatment options and high mortality. A better understanding of the molecular drivers of IPF progression is needed.

Objectives:

To identify an... Read More about PCSK6 and Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Packer, R., Shrine, N., Hall, R., Melbourne, C., Thompson, R., Williams, A., Paynton, M., Guyatt, A., Lee, P., John, C., Campbell, A., Hayward, C., de Vries, M., Vonk, J., Davitte, J., Hessel, E., Michalovich, D., Betts, J., Sayers, I., Yeo, A., …Wain, L. Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection

Background Chronic sputum production impacts on quality of life and is a feature of many respiratory diseases. Identification of the genetic variants associated with chronic sputum production in a disease agnostic sample could improve understanding o... Read More about Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection.

Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal (2022)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Binaya, C., Robinson, B., Adhikari, P., Evans, C., Karmacharya, B., Bolton, C. E., & Hall, I. P. (2022). Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal. Social Science and Medicine, 308, Article 115201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115201

Drawing on village-based data from Nepal, this paper explores the transferability of the Integrated Behavioural Model for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IBM-WASH) to the clean cooking sector and its potential to elucidate how barriers to improved coo... Read More about Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal.

A Hybrid Architecture (CO-CONNECT) to Facilitate Rapid Discovery and Access to Data Across the United Kingdom in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development Study (2022)
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Jefferson, E., Cole, C., Mumtaz, S., Cox, S., Giles, T., Adejumo, S., Urwin, E., Lea, D., McDonald, C., Best, J., Masood, E., Milligan, G., Johnston, J., Horban, S., Birced, I., Hall, C., Jackson, A., Collins, C., Rising, S., Dodsley, C., …Quinlan, P. (2022). A Hybrid Architecture (CO-CONNECT) to Facilitate Rapid Discovery and Access to Data Across the United Kingdom in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(12), Article e40035. https://doi.org/10.2196/40035

Background:
COVID-19 data have been generated across the United Kingdom as a by-product of clinical care and public health provision, as well as numerous bespoke and repurposed research endeavors. Analysis of these data has underpinned the United Ki... Read More about A Hybrid Architecture (CO-CONNECT) to Facilitate Rapid Discovery and Access to Data Across the United Kingdom in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development Study.

Mendelian randomisation of eosinophils and other cell types in relation to lung function and disease (2022)
Journal Article
Guyatt, A., John, C., Williams, A. T., Shrine, N., Reeve, N. F., Sayers, I., Hall, I., Wain, L. V., Sheehan, N., Dudbridge, F., Tobin, M. D., & SpiroMeta consortium. (2023). Mendelian randomisation of eosinophils and other cell types in relation to lung function and disease. Thorax, 78(5), 496-503. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217993

Rationale Eosinophils are associated with airway inflammation in respiratory disease. Eosinophil production and survival is controlled partly by interleukin-5: anti-interleukin-5 agents reduce asthma and response correlates with baseline eosinophil c... Read More about Mendelian randomisation of eosinophils and other cell types in relation to lung function and disease.

Genetic Associations and Architecture of Asthma-COPD Overlap (2022)
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John, C., Guyatt, A. L., Shrine, N., Packer, R., Olafsdottir, T. A., Liu, J., Hayden, L. P., Chu, S. H., Koskela, J. T., Luan, J., Li, X., Terzikhan, N., Xu, H., Bartz, T. M., Petersen, H., Leng, S., Belinsky, S. A., Cepelis, A., Hernández Cordero, A. I., Obeidat, M., …Tobin, M. D. (2022). Genetic Associations and Architecture of Asthma-COPD Overlap. Chest, 161(5), 1155-1166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.12.674

Background:
Some people have characteristics of both asthma and COPD (asthma-COPD overlap), and evidence suggests they experience worse outcomes than those with either condition alone.

Research Question:
What is the genetic architecture of as... Read More about Genetic Associations and Architecture of Asthma-COPD Overlap.

Patient-related outcomes in patients referred to a respiratory clinic with persisting symptoms following non-hospitalised COVID-19 (2022)
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Harvey-Dunstan, T. C., Jenkins, A. R., Gupta, A., Hall, I. P., & Bolton, C. E. (2022). Patient-related outcomes in patients referred to a respiratory clinic with persisting symptoms following non-hospitalised COVID-19. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 19, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1177/14799731211069391

Survivors of COVID-19 can present with varied and persisting symptoms, regardless of hospitalisation. We describe the ongoing symptoms, quality of life and return to work status in a cohort of non-hospitalised COVID-19 survivors with persisting respi... Read More about Patient-related outcomes in patients referred to a respiratory clinic with persisting symptoms following non-hospitalised COVID-19.