Table of contents

Original articles

Airway biology

• Original article: A genome-wide analysis of open chromatin in human tracheal epithelial cells reveals novel candidate regulatory elements for lung function (14 December, 2011) Free

  Jared M Bischof, Christopher J Ott, Shih-Hsing Leir, Nehal Gosalia, Lingyun Song, Darin London, Terrence S Furey, Calvin U Cotton, Gregory E Crawford, Ann Harris

Asthma

• Original article: Glucocorticoid receptor β and histone deacetylase 1 and 2 expression in the airways of severe asthma (8 December, 2011) Free

  Claire A Butler, Stephen McQuaid, Cliff C Taggart, Sinead Weldon, Richard Carter, Grzegorz Skibinski, Timothy J Warke, David F Choy, Lorcan P McGarvey, Peter Bradding, Joe R Arron, Liam G Heaney

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Relationship between quantitative CT metrics and health status and BODE in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (17 April, 2012) Free

  Carlos H Martinez, Ya-Hong Chen, Phillip M Westgate, Lyrica X Liu, Susan Murray, Jeffrey L Curtis, Barry J Make, Ella A Kazerooni, David A Lynch, Nathaniel Marchetti, George R Washko, Fernando J Martinez, MeiLan K Han, COPDGene Investigators

Interstitial lung disease

• Original article: Relative versus absolute change in forced vital capacity in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (17 March, 2012) Free

  Luca Richeldi, Christopher J Ryerson, Joyce S Lee, Paul J Wolters, Laura L Koth, Brett Ley, Brett M Elicker, Kirk D Jones, Talmadge E King, Jay H Ryu, Harold R Collard

Lung cancer

• Original article: Early diagnosis of lung cancer: evaluation of a community-based social marketing intervention (2 November, 2011) Free

  Victoria L Athey, Rupert J Suckling, Angela M Tod, Stephen J Walters, Trevor K Rogers
• Original article: Attitudes to participation in a lung cancer screening trial: a qualitative study (21 November, 2011) Free

  Deesha Patel, Ajiri Akporobaro, Nyasha Chinyanganya, Allan Hackshaw, Clive Seale, Stephen G Spiro, Chris Griffiths
• Original article: Knowledge of lung cancer symptoms and risk factors in the UK: development of a measure and results from a population-based survey (16 March, 2012) Free

  Alice E Simon, Dorota Juszczyk, Nina Smyth, Emily Power, Sara Hiom, Michael D Peake, Jane Wardle

Respiratory research

• Original article:

  Mutations of DNAH11 in patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia with normal ciliary ultrastructure

  (18 December, 2011) Free

  Michael R Knowles, Margaret W Leigh, Johnny L Carson, Stephanie D Davis, Sharon D Dell, Thomas W Ferkol, Kenneth N Olivier, Scott D Sagel, Margaret Rosenfeld, Kimberlie A Burns, Susan L Minnix, Michael C Armstrong, Adriana Lori, Milan J Hazucha, Niki T Loges, Heike Olbrich, Anita Becker-Heck, Miriam Schmidts, Claudius Werner, Heymut Omran, Maimoona A Zariwala, for the Genetic Disorders of Mucociliary Clearance Consortium