{"id":18695,"date":"2021-11-09T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=18695"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:40:16","slug":"update-on-asthma-and-allergy-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/11\/update-on-asthma-and-allergy-genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on asthma and allergy genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41588-021-00945-5\">recent attempt<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/genetics.opentargets.org\/study\/GCST007800\">Open Targets<\/a> integrating basically everything <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GWAS Catalog and UK Biobank) with transcriptomic, proteomic and epigenomic data, including systematic disease\u2013disease and disease\u2013molecular trait colocalization results across 92 cell types and tissues &#8230; trained a machine-learning model &#8230; to distinguish causal genes from neighboring genes, outperforming a naive distance-based model<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ended up with nothing new<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/x.jpg\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/x-470x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/x-470x500.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/x-620x660.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/x-768x817.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/x-1444x1536.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/x.jpg 1474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am glad to see, however, that <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1365-2222.2008.03086.x\">my criticism of the ORMDL3 hype<\/a> has been taken up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4427593\/\">by other authors as well<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the first report of the association of the 17q21 locus with asthma, Moffatt et al. suggested ORMDL3 as a promising candidate on the basis of gene expression studies in EBV-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines 5. However, the function of ORMDL3 remains to be fully elucidated and it is possible that other genes in this region, or more distant genes, contain the true causal variants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>while ORMDL3 isn&#8217;t appearing at all in the above analysis. So ORMDL3 seems to suffer the same fate as <a href=\"https:\/\/pubpeer.com\/publications\/36DE841F10D2C1891A51969B055528?utm_source=Chrome&#038;utm_medium=BrowserExtension&#038;utm_campaign=Chrome\">FcER1b\/MS4A2<\/a> identified by the same group.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the most recent attempt by Open Targets integrating basically everything GWAS Catalog and UK Biobank) with transcriptomic, proteomic and epigenomic data, including systematic disease\u2013disease and disease\u2013molecular trait colocalization results across 92 cell types and tissues &#8230; trained a machine-learning model &#8230; to distinguish causal genes from neighboring genes, outperforming a naive distance-based model ended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/11\/update-on-asthma-and-allergy-genes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on asthma and allergy genes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83,2451],"class_list":["post-18695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","tag-asthma","tag-ormdl3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18695"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18702,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions\/18702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}