Communications Biology (Mar 2021)

Identification of a missense variant in SPDL1 associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

  • Ryan S. Dhindsa,
  • Johan Mattsson,
  • Abhishek Nag,
  • Quanli Wang,
  • Louise V. Wain,
  • Richard Allen,
  • Eleanor M. Wigmore,
  • Kristina Ibanez,
  • Dimitrios Vitsios,
  • Sri V. V. Deevi,
  • Sebastian Wasilewski,
  • Maria Karlsson,
  • Glenda Lassi,
  • Henric Olsson,
  • Daniel Muthas,
  • Susan Monkley,
  • Alex Mackay,
  • Lynne Murray,
  • Simon Young,
  • Carolina Haefliger,
  • FinnGen Consortium,
  • Toby M. Maher,
  • Maria G. Belvisi,
  • Gisli Jenkins,
  • Philip L. Molyneaux,
  • Adam Platt,
  • Slavé Petrovski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01910-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Ryan Dhindsa et al. conducted an exome-wide association study to identify a rare variant in SPDL1 as a risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Their findings implicate mitotic checkpoint signalling as a new mechanism underlying IPF.