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Sool Lee

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Chromatin architecture in addiction circuitry identifies risk genes and potential biological mechanisms underlying cigarette smoking and alcohol use traits

NYA Sey, B Hu, M Iskhakova, S Lee, H Sun… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Cigarette smoking and alcohol use are among the most prevalent substances used
worldwide and account for a substantial proportion of preventable morbidity and mortality, …

Development of a blood-based transcriptional risk score for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

…, A Boueiz, AJ Ghosh, A Saferali, S Lee… - American Journal of …, 2022 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: The ability of peripheral blood biomarkers to assess chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) risk and progression is unknown. Genetics and gene expression may …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic investigation of allelic regulatory activity of schizophrenia-associated common variants

JC McAfee, S Lee, J Lee, JL Bell, O Krupa, J Davis… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have successfully identified 145 genomic regions
that contribute to schizophrenia risk, but linkage disequilibrium makes it challenging to …

An interferon-inducible signature of airway disease from blood gene expression profiling

JH Yun, S Lee, P Srinivasa, J Morrow… - European …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background The molecular basis of airway remodelling in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) remains poorly understood. We identified gene expression signatures …

[HTML][HTML] Peripheral blood microbial signatures in current and former smokers

JD Morrow, PJ Castaldi, RP Chase, JH Yun, S Lee… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The human microbiome has a role in the development of multiple diseases. Individual
microbiome profiles are highly personalized, though many species are shared. Understanding the …

[HTML][HTML] Improved prediction of smoking status via isoform-aware RNA-seq deep learning models

…, A Masoomi, Z Xu, A Boueiz, S Lee… - PLOS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Most predictive models based on gene expression data do not leverage information related
to gene splicing, despite the fact that splicing is a fundamental feature of eukaryotic gene …

Integrative Genomics Analysis Identifies ACVR1B as a Candidate Causal Gene of Emphysema Distribution

A Boueiz, B Pham, R Chase, A Lamb, S Lee… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple associations with
emphysema apicobasal distribution (EABD), but the biological functions of these variants are …

Blood RNA sequencing shows overlapping gene expression across COPD phenotype domains

AJ Ghosh, A Saferali, S Lee, R Chase, M Moll… - Thorax, 2022 - thorax.bmj.com
Rationale COPD can be assessed using multidimensional grading systems with components
from three domains: pulmonary function tests, symptoms and systemic features. Clinically, …

Clustering-based COPD subtypes have distinct longitudinal outcomes and multi-omics biomarkers

A Gregory, Z Xu, K Pratte, S Lee… - BMJ Open …, 2022 - bmjopenrespres.bmj.com
Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can progress across several
domains, complicating the identification of the determinants of disease progression. In our …

[HTML][HTML] Cigarette smoking-associated isoform switching and 3′ UTR lengthening via alternative polyadenylation

Z Xu, J Platig, S Lee, A Boueiz, R Chase, D Jain… - Genomics, 2021 - Elsevier
Cigarette smoking induces a profound transcriptomic and systemic inflammatory response.
Previous studies have focused on gene level differential expression of smoking, but the …