Min Hyung Ryu, Jeong H Yun, Kangjin Kim, Michele Gentili, Auyon Ghosh, Frank Sciurba, Lucas Barwick, Andrew Limper, Gerard Criner, Kevin K Brown, Robert Wise, Fernando J Martinez, Kevin R Flaherty, Michael H Cho, Peter J Castaldi, Dawn L DeMeo, Edwin K Silverman, Craig P Hersh, Jarrett D Morrow
RATIONALE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are debilitating diseases associated with divergent histopathological changes in the lungs. At present, due to cost and technical limitations, profiling cell types is not practical in large epidemiology cohorts (n>1000). Here, we used computational deconvolution to identify cell types in COPD and IPF lungs whose abundances and cell type-specific gene expression are associated with disease diagnosis and severity...
March 27, 2024: medRxiv