Article
Decoding the shared genetic liability of lower respiratory tract infections via genomic structural equation modeling.
BMC pulmonary medicine - 7 Jul 2026
Lei Ying, Li Jin, Xie Jia, Wang Tao
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), including pneumonia, tuberculosis, and COVID-19, share overlapping clinical features and risk factors, yet their common genetic architecture remains poorly understood. METHODS: We applied genomic structural equation modeling (Genomic SEM) to dissect the shared genetic susceptibility among seven LRTI-related phenotypes using large-scale GWAS summary...
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- Humans
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Respiratory Tract Infections
- Bayes Theorem
- Phenotype
