Progress To investigate the effects of genetic and environmental factors, and their interactions, on respiratory health in adults we have established several high-quality population resources. We have been working with the extramurally funded cohort, the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study to examine both genetic and environmental factors in adult respiratory health. The ARIC study is a cohort of 16,000 adults assembled from 1987-1989 in four US communities. ARIC has a wealth of detailed cardiovascular and respiratory phenotypes. We have used the genome wide association genotyping in ARIC to look for novel genes associated with pulmonary function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the setting of the CHARGE Consortium. In 2009, we formed a pulmonary function analysis group within the CHARGE consortium (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology) which includes several other cohorts with genome wide association genotyping and pulmonary function data (PMID: 20010835). In our first CHARGE meta-analysis of pulmonary traits, we identified eight novel loci related to pulmonary function. All have now been replicated by other groups. We subsequently developed a collaborated with a European consortium (SpiroMeta) to expand our work. We have published joint consortium papers on pulmonary function (PMID: 21946350) and COPD (PMID: 22837378 ). Again, our findings have been widely replaced. In 2012 we published one of the first papers incorporating interaction into genome wide association studies (PMID: 23284291). In so doing we identified 3 additional novel loci for pulmonary function. We have also published longitudinal analysis of lung function (PMID: 24983941). We recently identified 6 novel loci for forced vital capacity, a phenotype that we had not examined in our earlier papers (PMID: 24929828). In the past year we have also published on the use of targeted sequencing of two of the novel loci that we identified in our first CHARGE publication - HTR4 and ADAM19 (PMID: 24951661). These results suggest that rare variants do not underlie the associations that we identified earlier. We are currently revisiting all three pulmonary function traits using 1000 Genomes imputation in a multi-ethnic setting within our CHARGE group. We are also doing meta-analysis of rare variants in relation to these traits in subjects of European and African ancestry using the exome chip. In 2013, we completed enrollment of about 3000 farmers and spouses in a study of adult asthma - see the report for ES102385. This study is now part of the ongoing CHARGE analyses described above. Another population is the NIEHS Sister Study. This NIEHS cohort has enrolled 50,000 sisters of women with breast cancer. I have added nonmalignant respiratory disease questions to the questionnaire with the aim of examining gene-environment interaction in relation to respiratory disease in this cohort as it matures. The cohort is being followed up annually. We found associations between ambient air pollution and development of asthma and wheeze in this cohort (PMID: 25172226). We presented our work on chronic bronchitis in relation to air pollution at the 2016 American Thoracic Society meeting and are working on that manuscript.
| Jackson, Victoria E; Latourelle, Jeanne C; Wain, Louise V et al. (2018) Meta-analysis of exome array data identifies six novel genetic loci for lung function. Wellcome Open Res 3:4 |
| Silvestre, Odilson M; Nadruz Jr, Wilson; Querejeta Roca, Gabriela et al. (2018) Declining Lung Function and Cardiovascular Risk: The ARIC Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 72:1109-1122 |
| Demenais, Florence; Margaritte-Jeannin, Patricia; Barnes, Kathleen C et al. (2018) Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks. Nat Genet 50:42-53 |
| Liu, C; Marioni, R E; Hedman, Å K et al. (2018) A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption. Mol Psychiatry 23:422-433 |
| Wyss, Annah B; Sofer, Tamar; Lee, Mi Kyeong et al. (2018) Multiethnic meta-analysis identifies ancestry-specific and cross-ancestry loci for pulmonary function. Nat Commun 9:2976 |
| Oelsner, Elizabeth C; Balte, Pallavi P; Cassano, Patricia A et al. (2018) Harmonization of Respiratory Data From 9 US Population-Based Cohorts: The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Am J Epidemiol 187:2265-2278 |
| Lee, Mi Kyeong; Carnes, Megan U; Butz, Natasha et al. (2018) Exposures Related to House Dust Microbiota in a U.S. Farming Population. Environ Health Perspect 126:067001 |
| Burkart, Kristin M; Sofer, Tamar; London, Stephanie J et al. (2018) A Genome-Wide Association Study in Hispanics/Latinos Identifies Novel Signals for Lung Function. The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 198:208-219 |
| Brigham, Emily P; Steffen, Lyn M; London, Stephanie J et al. (2018) Diet Pattern and Respiratory Morbidity in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Ann Am Thorac Soc 15:675-682 |
| Hooper, Laura G; Young, Michael T; Keller, Joshua P et al. (2018) Ambient Air Pollution and Chronic Bronchitis in a Cohort of U.S. Women. Environ Health Perspect 126:027005 |
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