Multiethnic meta-analysis identifies ancestry-specific and cross-ancestry loci for pulmonary function

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Wyss, Annah B ^a   Sofer, Tamar ^b,c   Lee, Mi Kyeong ^a   Terzikhan, Natalie ^d,e   Nguyen, Jennifer N ^f   Lahousse, Lies ^e,g   Latourelle, Jeanne C ^h   Smith, Albert Vernon ^i,j,k   Bartz, Traci M ^l,m   Feitosa, Mary F ⁿ   Gao, Wei ^o   Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S ^p,q   Tang, Wenbo ^r   Oldmeadow, Christopher ^s   Duan, Qing ^t   de Jong, Kim ^u   Wojczynski, Mary K ⁿ   Wang, Xin Qun ^v   Noordam, Raymond ^w   Hartwig, Fernando Pires ^x,y   Jackson, Victoria E ^z   Wang, Tianyuan ^a   Obeidat, Ma’en ^aa   Hobbs, Brian D ^b   Huan, Tianxiao ^ab   Gui, Hongsheng ^ac   Parker, Margaret M ^b   Hu, Donglei ^ad   Mogil, Lauren S ^ae   Kichaev, Gleb ^af   Jin, Jianping ^ag   Graff, Mariaelisa ^ah   Harris, Tamara B ^ai   Kalhan, Ravi ^aj   Heckbert, Susan R ^l   Paternoster, Lavinia ^y   Burkart, Kristin M ^ak   Liu, Yongmei ^al   Holliday, Elizabeth G ^s   Wilson, James G ^am   Vonk, Judith M ^u   Sanders, Jason L ^an   Barr, R Graham ^ak,ao   de Mutsert, Renée ^w   Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista ^x   Adams, Hieab H H ^e   van den Berge, Maarten ^u   Joehanes, Roby ^ap   Levin, Albert M ^ac   Liberto, Jennifer ^ad   Launer, Lenore J ^ai   Morrison, Alanna C ^aq   Sitlani, Colleen M ^l   Celedón, Juan C ^ar   Kritchevsky, Stephen B ^al   Scott, Rodney J ^s,as   Christensen, Kaare ^at   Rotter, Jerome I ^au   Bonten, Tobias N ^w   Wehrmeister, Fernando César ^x   Bossé, Yohan ^av   Xiao, Shujie ^ac   Oh, Sam ^ad   Franceschini, Nora ^ah   Brody, Jennifer A ^l   Kaplan, Robert C ^aw   Lohman, Kurt ^al   McEvoy, Mark ^s   Province, Michael A ⁿ   Rosendaal, Frits R ^w   Taylor, Kent D ^au   Nickle, David C ^ax   Williams, L Keoki ^ac   Burchard, Esteban G ^ad,ay   Wheeler, Heather E ^ae   Sin, Don D ^aa   Gudnason, Vilmundur ^i,j   North, Kari E ^ah   Fornage, Myriam ^az   Psaty, Bruce M ^l,ba   Myers, Richard H ^h   O’Connor, George ^h,bb   Hansen, Torben ^p   Laurie, Cathy C ^m   Cassano, Patricia A ^r,bc   Sung, Joohon ^bd   Kim, Woo Jin ^be   Attia, John R ^s   Lange, Leslie ^bf   Boezen, H Marike ^u   Thyagarajan, Bharat ^bg   Rich, Stephen S ^f   Mook Kanamori, Dennis O ^w   Horta, Bernardo Lessa ^x   Uitterlinden, André G ^e   Im, Hae Kyung ^bh   Cho, Michael H ^b   Brusselle, Guy G ^d,e   Gharib, Sina A ^l   Dupuis, Josée ^o,bb   Manichaikul, Ani ^f   London, Stephanie J ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁿ WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^p Capital Region   (Denmark)

^q STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

^r Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^t UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^v UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^w LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^x FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^y UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^z UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^ab NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ac HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ae LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ag WESTAT   (United States)

^ah University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^ai NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^aj NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ak Massachusetts General Hospital ^*  (United States)

^al WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^am UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^an MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^ao Department of Medicine   (United States)

^ap HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^ar CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^as NSW Health Pathology   (Australia)

^at UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^au HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^av LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^aw ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ax MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^ay UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^az UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ba KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^bb FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^bc WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^bd Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^be Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^bf UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^bg UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^bh UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; META-ANALYSIS; PROTEIN;

AFRICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CDK12 GENE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KCNK2 GENE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; ASIAN AMERICAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; VITAL CAPACITY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 85050820503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05369-0     Document Type: Article

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