Communications Biology (Jun 2021)

Prioritization of candidate causal genes for asthma in susceptibility loci derived from UK Biobank

  • Kim Valette,
  • Zhonglin Li,
  • Valentin Bon-Baret,
  • Arnaud Chignon,
  • Jean-Christophe Bérubé,
  • Aida Eslami,
  • Jennifer Lamothe,
  • Nathalie Gaudreault,
  • Philippe Joubert,
  • Ma’en Obeidat,
  • Maarten van den Berge,
  • Wim Timens,
  • Don D. Sin,
  • David C. Nickle,
  • Ke Hao,
  • Catherine Labbé,
  • Krystelle Godbout,
  • Andréanne Côté,
  • Michel Laviolette,
  • Louis-Philippe Boulet,
  • Patrick Mathieu,
  • Sébastien Thériault,
  • Yohan Bossé

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02227-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Kim Valette et al. perform a genomic study on asthma integrating genome-wide association study, functional mapping using lung and blood transcriptome-wide profiles, as well as Mendelian randomization. They show candidate causal genes expressed in lung and blood tissues that are putative therapeutic targets for asthma.