Recent genome‐wide association studies reveal that the FAM13A gene was associated with a variety of lung diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, lung cancer, and pulmonary fibrosis (Corvol, Hodges, Drumm, & Guillot, 2014; Hawkins & Mora, 2017). This evidence concerns the gene FAM13A and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.