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Cytokine-induced molecular responses in airway smooth muscle cells inform genome-wide association studies of asthma.
Genome medicine - 20 Jul 2020
Thompson Emma E, Dang Quynh, Mitchell-Handley Blair, Rajendran Kavitha, Ram-Mohan Sumati, Solway Julian, Ober Carole, Krishnan Ramaswamy
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A challenge in the post-GWAS era is to assign function to disease-associated variants. However, available resources do not include all tissues or environmental exposures that are relevant to all diseases. For example, exaggerated bronchoconstriction of airway smooth muscle cells (ASMCs) defines airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), a cardinal feature of asthma. However, the contribution of ASMC to genetic...
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