Andrew H. Liu

The paper develops gene expression prediction models for asthma-related tissues in African-ancestry populations and identifies 17 candidate causal asthma genes using transcriptome-wide association study.

This study identifies a genetic variant associated with reduced lung function in urban children and shows its mediation by DNA methylation linked to smoking exposure.

The paper uses gene co-expression networks in whole blood to identify molecular pathways associated with obese asthma, finding four modules linked to obesity and enriched for inflammatory pathways.