Association study of human leukocyte antigen variants and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Guillen-Guio, Beatriz; Paynton, Megan L.; Allen, Richard J.; Chin, Daniel P.W.; Donoghue, Lauren J.; Stockwell, Amy; Leavy, Olivia C.; Hernandez-Beeftink, Tamara; Reynolds, Carl; Cullinan, Paul; Martinez, Fernando; Booth, Helen L.; Fahy, William A.; Hall, Ian P.; Hart, Simon P.; Hill, Mike R.; Hirani, Nik; Hubbard, Richard B.; McAnulty, Robin J.; Millar, Ann B.; Navaratnam, Vidya; Oballa, Eunice; Parfrey, Helen; Saini, Gauri; Sayers, Ian; Tobin, Martin D.; Whyte, Moira K. B.; Adegunsoye, Ayodeji; Kaminski, Naftali; Ma, Shwu Fan; Strek, Mary E.; Zhang, Yingze; Fingerlin, Tasha E.; Molina-Molina, Maria; Neighbors, Margaret; Sheng, X. Rebecca; Oldham, Justin M.; Maher, Toby M.; Molyneaux, Philip L.; Flores, Carlos; Noth, Imre; Schwartz, David A.; Yaspan, Brian L.; Jenkins, R. Gisli; Wain, Louise V.; Hollox, Edward J.

doi:10.1183/23120541.00553-2023

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Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity (2023)
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Portelli, M. A., Bhaker, S., Pang, V., Bates, D. O., Johnson, S. R., Mazar, A. P., …Sayers, I. (2023). Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity. Clinical and Translational Allergy, 13(10), Article e12293. https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.12293

AbstractBackgroundExpression of the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) is elevated in the airway epithelium in asthma; however, the contribution of uPAR to asthma pathogenesis and scope for therapeutic targeting remains unknown.Objective... Read More about Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity.

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., …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

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., …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)
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Packer, R. J., Shrine, N., Hall, R., Melbourne, C. A., Thompson, R., Williams, A. T., …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.

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., …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.

Association study of human leukocyte antigen variants and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (2023)
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Guillen-Guio, B., Paynton, M. L., Allen, R. J., Chin, D. P., Donoghue, L. J., Stockwell, A., …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.