Pneumonia: host susceptibility and shared genetics with pulmonary function and other traits

Summary Pneumonia is a common and severe infectious lung disease. Host genetics, together with underlying medical and lifestyle conditions, determine pneumonia susceptibility. We performed a secondary analysis of the results of two genome-wide studies for pneumonia in 23andMe participants (40 600 cases/90 039 controls) (Tian et al., 2017) and UK Biobank (BB) participants (12 614 cases/324 585 controls) (via the Global Biobank Engine) and used...