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Háskóli Íslands |
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University of Iceland |
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Háskólinn í Reykjavík |
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Reykjavik University |
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Ólafsdóttir, Þórunn Ásta |
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Theódórs, Fannar |
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Bjarnadóttir, Kristbjörg |
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Björnsdóttir, Unnur Steina |
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Agustsdottir, Arna B. |
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Stefánsson, Ólafur A. |
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Ivarsdottir, Erna |
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Sigurðsson, Jón K. |
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Benónísdóttir, Stefanía |
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Eyjólfsson, Guðmundur I. |
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Gíslason, Davíð |
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Gislason, Thorarinn |
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Guðmundsdóttir, Steinunn |
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Gylfason, Arnaldur |
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Halldórsson, Bjarni |
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Halldorsson, Gisli |
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Júlíusdóttir, Þórhildur |
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Kristinsdottir, Anna M. |
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Lúðvíksdóttir, Dóra |
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Ludviksson, Bjorn |
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Másson, Gísli |
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Norland, Kristjan |
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Onundarson, Pall |
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Olafsson, Isleifur |
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Sigurdardottir, Olof |
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Stefánsdóttir, Lilja |
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Sveinbjörnsson, Garðar |
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Tragante do O, Vinicius |
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Gudbjartsson, Daniel |
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Þorleifsson, Guðmar |
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sulem, patrick |
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Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur |
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Norddahl, Guðmundur L. |
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Jonsdottir, Ingileif |
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Stefansson, Kari |
dc.date.accessioned |
2021-02-02T13:28:41Z |
dc.date.available |
2021-02-02T13:28:41Z |
dc.date.issued |
2020-01-20 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Olafsdottir, T.A., Theodors, F., Bjarnadottir, K. et al. Eighty-eight variants highlight the role of T cell regulation and airway remodeling in asthma pathogenesis. Nature Communications 11, 393 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14144-8 |
dc.identifier.issn |
2041-1723 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2447 |
dc.description |
Publisher's version (útgefin grein) |
dc.description.abstract |
Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases affecting both children and adults. We report a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 69,189 cases and 702,199 controls from Iceland and UK biobank. We find 88 asthma risk variants at 56 loci, 19 previously unreported, and evaluate their effect on other asthma and allergic phenotypes. Of special interest are two low frequency variants associated with protection against asthma; a missense variant in TNFRSF8 and 3‘ UTR variant in TGFBR1. Functional studies show that the TNFRSF8 variant reduces TNFRSF8 expression both on cell surface and in soluble form, acting as loss of function. eQTL analysis suggests that the TGFBR1 variant acts through gain of function and together with an intronic variant in a downstream gene, SMAD3, points to defective TGFβR1 signaling as one of the biological perturbations increasing asthma risk. Our results increase the number of asthma variants and implicate genes with known role in T cell regulation, inflammation and airway remodeling in asthma pathogenesis. |
dc.description.sponsorship |
We thank the individuals who participated in this study and the staff at the Icelandic Patient Recruitment Center and the deCODE genetics core facilities. Further to all our colleagues who contributed to the data collection and phenotypic characterization of clinical samples as well as to the genotyping and analysis of the whole-genome association data. This research has been conducted using the UK biobank Resource under Application Number ‘24711’. |
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393 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Nature Communications;11(1) |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Asthma |
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Gene expression |
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Meta-analysis |
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Astmi |
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Genarannsóknir |
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Gen |
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Erfðarannsóknir |
dc.title |
Eighty-eight variants highlight the role of T cell regulation and airway remodeling in asthma pathogenesis |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dcterms.license |
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
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Peer Reviewed |
dc.identifier.journal |
Nature Communications |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.1038/s41467-019-14144-8 |
dc.relation.url |
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14144-8 |
dc.contributor.department |
Læknadeild (HÍ) |
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Faculty of Medicine (UI) |
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Verkfræðideild (HR) |
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Department of Engineering (RU) |
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Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ) |
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School of Health Sciences (UI) |
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Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) |
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) |
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Tæknisvið (HR) |
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School of Technology (RU) |