ArticleERJ open research2023
Shared genetic architecture of blood eosinophil counts and asthma in UK Biobank.
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- Sex-biased Gene Expression Underlies Immune Dysfunction in Asthma.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025Pooled it
- Post-genome-wide association study variant-to-function challenges in asthma research.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2026Review
- Genetically Predicted Serum miRNAs as Potential Causal Drivers of Atopic Dermatitis: Evidence from Large-Scale GWAS and Clinical Validation.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2026Article
- Multi-trait genetic analysis of asthma and eosinophils uncovers pleiotropic loci in East Asians.Nature communications · 2025Article
- EndoPRS: Incorporating endophenotype information to improve polygenic risk scores for clinical endpoints-A study in asthma.American journal of human genetics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Rationale: Asthma is a complex, heterogeneous disease strongly associated with type 2 inflammation, and blood eosinophil counts guide therapeutic interventions in moderate and severe asthma. Eosinophils are leukocytes involved in type 2 immune responses. Despite these critical associations between asthma and blood eosinophil counts, the shared genetic architecture of these two traits remains unknown. The objective of the present study was to characterise the genetic architecture of blood eosinophil counts and asthma in the UK Biobank. Methods: We performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of doctor-diagnosed asthma, blood eosinophil, neutrophil, lymphocyte and monocyte counts in the UK Biobank. Genetic correlation analysis was performed on GWAS results and validated in the Trans-National Asthma Genetic Consortium (TAGC) study of asthma. Results: GWAS of doctor-diagnosed asthma and blood eosinophil counts in the UK Biobank identified 585 and 3429 significant variants, respectively. Conclusions: These findings define the shared genetic architecture between blood eosinophil counts and asthma risk in subjects of European ancestry and point to a genetic link to the
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