Search Results - "Jason G. Mezey"
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Expression of the SARS-CoV-2 ACE2 Receptor in the Human Airway Epithelium
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-07-2020)“…Infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a predominantly respiratory illness. The…”
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Point-of-care whole-exome sequencing of idiopathic male infertility
Published in Genetics in medicine (01-11-2018)“…Purpose Nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA) affects 1% of the male population; however, despite state-of-the-art clinical assessment, for most patients the cause…”
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Ontogeny and Biology of Human Small Airway Epithelial Club Cells
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (01-12-2018)“…Little is known about human club cells, dome-shaped cells with dense cytoplasmic granules and microvilli that represent the major secretory cells of the human…”
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Circulating Endothelial Microparticles as a Measure of Early Lung Destruction in Cigarette Smokers
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-07-2011)“…There is increasing evidence that emphysema is associated with primary loss of pulmonary capillary endothelium. Plasma levels of endothelial microparticles…”
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Identifying novel associations in GWAS by hierarchical Bayesian latent variable detection of differentially misclassified phenotypes
Published in BMC bioinformatics (07-05-2020)“…Heterogeneity in the definition and measurement of complex diseases in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) may lead to misdiagnoses and misclassification…”
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Four loci explain 83% of size variation in the horse
Published in PloS one (11-07-2012)“…Horse body size varies greatly due to intense selection within each breed. American Miniatures are less than one meter tall at the withers while Shires and…”
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Dysregulation of club cell biology in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Published in PloS one (17-09-2020)“…Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive, chronic fibrotic lung disease with an irreversible decline of lung function. "Bronchiolization",…”
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Whole-exome sequencing identifies common and rare variant metabolic QTLs in a Middle Eastern population
Published in Nature communications (23-01-2018)“…Metabolomics-genome-wide association studies (mGWAS) have uncovered many metabolic quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) influencing human metabolic individuality,…”
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RNA-Seq quantification of the human small airway epithelium transcriptome
Published in BMC genomics (29-02-2012)“…The small airway epithelium (SAE), the cell population that covers the human airway surface from the 6th generation of airway branching to the alveoli, is the…”
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Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations
Published in Genome research (01-02-2016)“…An open question in the history of human migration is the identity of the earliest Eurasian populations that have left contemporary descendants. The Arabian…”
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Corneal confocal microscopy: Neurologic disease biomarker in Friedreich ataxia
Published in Annals of neurology (01-12-2018)“…Objective Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in the gene encoding for the mitochondrial protein…”
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A variational Bayes algorithm for fast and accurate multiple locus genome-wide association analysis
Published in BMC bioinformatics (27-01-2010)“…The success achieved by genome-wide association (GWA) studies in the identification of candidate loci for complex diseases has been accompanied by an inability…”
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Anti-hIgE gene therapy of peanut-induced anaphylaxis in a humanized murine model of peanut allergy
Published in Journal of allergy and clinical immunology (01-12-2016)“…Background Peanuts are the most common food to provoke fatal or near-fatal anaphylactic reactions. Treatment with an anti-hIgE mAb is efficacious but requires…”
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Smoking dysregulates the human airway basal cell transcriptome at COPD risk locus 19q13.2
Published in PloS one (03-02-2014)“…Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and candidate gene studies have identified a number of risk loci associated with the smoking-related disease COPD, a…”
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Persistence of circulating endothelial microparticles in COPD despite smoking cessation
Published in Thorax (01-12-2016)“…Increasing evidence links COPD pathogenesis with pulmonary capillary apoptosis. We previously demonstrated that plasma levels of circulating microparticles…”
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POU2AF1 Functions in the Human Airway Epithelium To Regulate Expression of Host Defense Genes
Published in The Journal of immunology (1950) (01-04-2016)“…In the process of seeking novel lung host defense regulators by analyzing genome-wide RNA sequence data from normal human airway epithelium, we detected…”
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Persistence of smoking-induced dysregulation of miRNA expression in the small airway epithelium despite smoking cessation
Published in PloS one (17-04-2015)“…Even after quitting smoking, the risk of the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer remains significantly higher compared…”
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Cell-specific expression of lung disease risk-related genes in the human small airway epithelium
Published in Respiratory research (29-07-2020)“…The human small airway epithelium (SAE) plays a central role in the early events in the pathogenesis of most inherited and acquired lung disorders. Little is…”
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Waterpipe smoking induces epigenetic changes in the small airway epithelium
Published in PloS one (08-03-2017)“…Waterpipe (also called hookah, shisha, or narghile) smoking is a common form of tobacco use in the Middle East. Its use is becoming more prevalent in Western…”
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