Communications Biology (Nov 2021)

Genetic loci for lung function in Japanese adults with adjustment for exhaled nitric oxide levels as airway inflammation indicator

  • Mitsuhiro Yamada,
  • Ikuko N. Motoike,
  • Kaname Kojima,
  • Nobuo Fuse,
  • Atsushi Hozawa,
  • Shinichi Kuriyama,
  • Fumiki Katsuoka,
  • Shu Tadaka,
  • Matsuyuki Shirota,
  • Miyuki Sakurai,
  • Tomohiro Nakamura,
  • Yohei Hamanaka,
  • Kichiya Suzuki,
  • Junichi Sugawara,
  • Soichi Ogishima,
  • Akira Uruno,
  • Eiichi N. Kodama,
  • Naoya Fujino,
  • Tadahisa Numakura,
  • Tomohiro Ichikawa,
  • Ayumi Mitsune,
  • Takashi Ohe,
  • Kengo Kinoshita,
  • Masakazu Ichinose,
  • Hisatoshi Sugiura,
  • Masayuki Yamamoto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02813-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Yamada, Motoike, Kojima et al. undertake a GWAS study on 19,722 participants from two Japanese populations for lung function with adjustment for fractional exhaled nitric oxide levels to account for airway inflammation. The authors identify variants of the RNF5/AGER locus and explore their three-dimensional protein interactions to better investigate the association between these variants and lung function.