Unique and shared systemic biomarkers for emphysema in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

This work was supported by a grant from the Alpha-1 Foundation to RPB. COPDGene was supported by Award U01 HL089897 and U01 HL089856 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Proteomics for COPDGene was supported by NIH 1R01HL137995. GRADS was supported by Award U01HL112707, U01 HL112695 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and UL1TRR002535 to CCTSI; QUANTUM-1 was supported by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Office of Rare Diseases through the Rare Lung Disease Clinical Research Network (1 U54 RR019498-01, Trapnell PI), and the Alpha-1 Foundation. COPDGene is also supported by the COPD Foundation through contributions made to an Industry Advisory Board that has included AstraZeneca, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Pfizer, and Sunovion.