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. 2020 Aug 1;202(3):371–382. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201909-1867OC

Table 4.

Expression of Vitamin D–Inducible Signatures in Patients with Asthma and COPD versus Control Subjects

  Phenotype PBMC Signature
Epithelial Signature
logFC P Value logFC P Value
Asthma          
 UBIOPRED          
   Endobronchial biopsy Asthma (n = 41) vs. control subjects (n = 26) N/A N/A −0.04 0.43
   Endobronchial brushings Asthma (n = 54) vs. control subjects (n = 44) N/A N/A 0.00 0.90
   Nasal brushings Asthma (n = 32) vs. control subjects (n = 25) N/A N/A 0.10 0.04
   Blood Asthma (n = 165) vs. control subjects (n = 87) 0.06 0.03 N/A N/A
   Sputum Asthma (n = 43) vs. control subjects (n = 16) N/A N/A 0.11 0.04
 ADEPT          
   Sputum Asthma (n = 39) vs. control subjects (n = 9) N/A N/A 0.18 0.01
 Woodruff          
   Blood Mild-moderate asthma (n = 23) vs. control subjects (n = 20) 0.00 0.99 N/A N/A
   Airway epithelium Mild-moderate asthma (n = 62) vs. control subjects (n = 43) N/A N/A 0.07 0.053
   Endobronchial biopsy Mild-moderate asthma (n = 37) vs. control subjects (n = 24) N/A N/A 0.11 0.04
COPD          
 ECLIPSE          
   Blood COPD (n = 151) vs. control subjects (n = 47) −0.13 0.01 N/A N/A
   Sputum COPD (n = 104) vs. control subjects (n = 32) N/A N/A −0.01 0.79
 Steiling          
   Airway epithelium Current/former smokers, COPD (n = 87) vs. control subjects (n = 151) N/A N/A 0.03 0.20
 Tilley          
   Small airway epithelium Current smokers, COPD (n = 36) vs. control subjects (n = 72) N/A N/A 0.01 0.72
 Lung Tissue Research Consortium (GSE47460)          
   Whole-lung homogenate COPD (n = 215) vs. control subjects (n = 105) N/A N/A −0.08 0.006

Definition of abbreviations: ADEPT = Airways Disease Endotyping for Personalized Therapeutics; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ECLIPSE = Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate End-Points; logFC = log2 fold change; N/A = not applicable; PBMC = peripheral blood mononuclear cells; UBIOPRED = Unbiased Biomarkers in Prediction of Respiratory Disease Outcomes.