Systems biology in asthma.
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Author(s)
Kermani, Nazanin Zounemat
Adcock, Ian M
Djukanović, Ratko
Chung, Fan
Schofield, James PR
Type
Chapter
Abstract
The application of mathematical and computational analysis, together with the modelling of biological and physiological processes, is transforming our understanding of the pathophysiology of complex diseases. This systems biology approach incorporates large amounts of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, breathomic, metagenomic and imaging data from disease sites together with deep clinical phenotyping, including patient-reported outcomes. Integration of these datasets will provide a greater understanding of the molecular pathways associated with severe asthma in each individual patient and determine their personalised treatment regime. This chapter describes some of the data integration methods used to combine data sets and gives examples of the results obtained using single datasets and merging of multiple datasets (data fusion and data combination) from several consortia including the severe asthma research programme (SARP) and the Unbiased Biomarkers Predictive of Respiratory Disease Outcomes (U-BIOPRED) consortia. These results highlight the involvement of several different immune and inflammatory pathways and factors in distinct subsets of patients with severe asthma. These pathways often overlap in patients with distinct clinical features of asthma, which may explain the incomplete or no response in patients undergoing specific targeted therapy. Collaboration between groups will improve the predictions obtained using a systems medicine approach in severe asthma.
Editor(s)
Braiser, Allan R
Jarjour, Nizar N
Date Issued
2023-07-19
Citation
Precision Approaches to Heterogeneity in Asthma, 2023, 1426, pp.215-235
Start Page
215
End Page
235
Journal / Book Title
Precision Approaches to Heterogeneity in Asthma
Volume
1426
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32259-4_10
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37464123
Grant Number
115010
MR/T010371/1
Subjects
Asthma
Biomarkers
Humans
Proteomics
Respiration Disorders
Systems Biology
Breathomics
Clustering
Data integration
Genomics
Heterogeneity
Imaging
Metabolomics
Metagenomics
Next generation sequencing
Proteomics
Severe asthma research programm (SARP)
Transcriptomics
Unbiased Biomarkers Predictive of Respiratory Disease Outcomes (U-BIOPRED) consortium
Publication Status
Published
Rights Embargo Date
2025-07-20
Date Publish Online
2023-07-19