A postnatal human lung developmental atlas reveals windows of genetic vulnerability to chronic lung disease
Joseph D. Planer, Michael P. Morley, Songlin Cai, Andrew R. Peterson, MinQi Lu, Yifan Yang, Hannah Hallquist, Sarah E. Schaefer, Justine Carl, Su Zhou, Susan M. Lin, Prashant Chandrasekaran, Lisa R. Young, Edward Cantu, William H. Peranteau, , Maria Ciocca Basil
The paper creates a postnatal human lung developmental atlas to identify genes linked to chronic lung disease risk and shows COPD genetic risk is enriched in genes active during early postnatal endothelial development.
bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2026 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology