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Here, we assessed associations between lung transcriptomics and proteomics with COPD in 98 subjects from the Lung Tissue Research Consortium. Low correlations between transcriptomics and proteomics were generally observed, but higher correlations were found for COPD-associated proteins. We integrated COPD risk SNPs or SNPs near COPD-associated proteins with lung transcripts and proteins to identify regulatory cis-quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Significant expression QTLs (eQTLs) and protein QTLs (pQTLs) were found regulating multiple COPD-associated biomarkers. We investigated mediated associations from significant pQTLs through transcripts to protein levels of COPD-associated proteins. We also attempted to identify colocalized effects between COPD genome-wide association studies and eQTL and pQTL signals. Evidence was found for colocalization between COPD genome-wide association study signals and a pQTL for RHOB and an eQTL for DSP. We applied weighted gene co-expression network analysis to find consensus COPD-associated network modules. Two network modules generated by consensus weighted gene co-expression network analysis were associated with COPD with a false discovery rate lower than 0.05. One network module is related to the catenin complex, and the other module is related to plasma membrane components. In summary, multiple cis-acting determinants of transcripts and proteins associated with COPD were identified. 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