Justin M. Oldham

The paper identifies a functional qacG gene in a Streptococcus mitis subsp. mitis isolate from an IPF patient, showing transcriptional activity but no increased resistance to quaternary ammonium compounds.

This study identifies three novel genetic signals associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using GWAS and clinically-curated datasets, highlighting potential drug targets like MUC1 and NTN4.

This study evaluates the genetic risk variants for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in non-European populations, finding partial replication and ancestry-specific effects, with rs35705950 as the most consistent signal.

This study shows that polygenic risk scores improve the identification of IPF patients carrying rare variants associated with monogenic pulmonary fibrosis.

This study performs GWAS of IPF using dominant and recessive models, identifying five new genome-wide significant signals and genes, including PMF1 and EPN3, and observing increased PMF1 expression in IPF patients.

This study identifies CD103+ dendritic cell-fibroblast crosstalk via TLR9 and AHR signaling as a driver of lung fibrosis in IPF, showing that inhibiting AHR signaling reduces fibrosis.

This study investigates the impact of rare variants and polygenic risk scores on survival in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients, finding that rare variants are associated with worse outcomes.

This study identifies three genetic variants with sex-specific effects on IPF susceptibility but finds no significant difference in predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores between males and females.

This study investigates the association between HLA genetic variants and IPF risk using a meta-analysis of seven case-control studies, finding no consistent HLA region associations.

The paper identifies four novel genetic variants associated with IPF survival, including a PCSK6 variant, and suggests PCSK6 as a prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target.

This study performs a large multi-ancestry meta-analysis of IPF genetics, identifying seven novel genome-wide significant loci and highlighting pleiotropy with severe COVID-19 and sex-heterogeneity at the MUC5B locus.

This study performs a genome-wide meta-analysis across five IPF cohorts, identifying five novel genetic loci associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

This study identifies three new genetic loci associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and confirms 11 previously reported ones, highlighting mTOR signaling and mitotic spindle-assembly genes in disease susceptibility.