Ma'en Obeidat1, Xiaoting Ding1, Nick Fishbane1, Zsuzsanna Hollander2, Raymond T Ng3, Bruce McManus2, Scott J Tebbutt2, Bruce E Miller4, Stephen Rennard5, Peter D Paré6, Don D Sin7. 1. University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2. University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF) Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3. Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF) Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 4. GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA; 5. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; 6. University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Respiratory Division, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 7. University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Respiratory Division, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada don.sin@hli.ubc.ca.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Smoking is the number one modifiable environmental risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Clinical, epidemiological and increasingly "omics" studies assess or adjust for current smoking status using only self-report, which may be inaccurate. Objective measures such as exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO) may also be problematic owing to limitations in the measurements and the relatively short half life of the molecule. In this study, we determined the impact of different case definitions of current cigarette smoking on gene expression in peripheral blood of patients with COPD. METHODS: Peripheral blood gene expression from 573 former- and current-smokers with COPD in the ECLIPSE study was used to find genes whose expression was associated with smoking status. Current smoking was defined using self-report, eCO concentrations, or both. Linear regression was used to determine the association of current smoking status with gene expression adjusting for age, sex and propensity score. Pathway enrichment analyses were performed on genes with P < .001. RESULT: Using self-report or eCO, only two genes were differentially expressed between current and ex-smokers, with no enrichment in biological processes. When current smoking was defined using both eCO and self-report, four genes were differentially expressed (LRRN3, PID1, FUCA1, GPR15) with enrichment in 40 biological pathways related to metabolic processes, response to hypoxia and hormonal stimulus. Additionally, the combined definition provided better distributions of test statistics for differential gene expression. CONCLUSION: A combined phenotype of eCO and self report allows for better discovery of genes and pathways related to current smoking. IMPLICATIONS: Studies relying only on self report of smoking status to assess or adjust for the impact of smoking may not fully capture its effect and will lead to residual confounding of results.
INTRODUCTION: Smoking is the number one modifiable environmental risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Clinical, epidemiological and increasingly "omics" studies assess or adjust for current smoking status using only self-report, which may be inaccurate. Objective measures such as exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO) may also be problematic owing to limitations in the measurements and the relatively short half life of the molecule. In this study, we determined the impact of different case definitions of current cigarette smoking on gene expression in peripheral blood of patients with COPD. METHODS: Peripheral blood gene expression from 573 former- and current-smokers with COPD in the ECLIPSE study was used to find genes whose expression was associated with smoking status. Current smoking was defined using self-report, eCO concentrations, or both. Linear regression was used to determine the association of current smoking status with gene expression adjusting for age, sex and propensity score. Pathway enrichment analyses were performed on genes with P < .001. RESULT: Using self-report or eCO, only two genes were differentially expressed between current and ex-smokers, with no enrichment in biological processes. When current smoking was defined using both eCO and self-report, four genes were differentially expressed (LRRN3, PID1, FUCA1, GPR15) with enrichment in 40 biological pathways related to metabolic processes, response to hypoxia and hormonal stimulus. Additionally, the combined definition provided better distributions of test statistics for differential gene expression. CONCLUSION: A combined phenotype of eCO and self report allows for better discovery of genes and pathways related to current smoking. IMPLICATIONS: Studies relying only on self report of smoking status to assess or adjust for the impact of smoking may not fully capture its effect and will lead to residual confounding of results.
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