Large-scale, multiethnic genome-wide association study identifies novel loci contributing to asthma susceptibility in adults.

Amber Dahlin Joanne E Sordillo John Ziniti Carlos Iribarren Meng Lu Scott T Weiss Kelan G Tantisira Quan Lu Mengyuan Kan Blanca E Himes Eric Jorgenson Ann Chen Wu

J Allergy Clin Immunol

Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; PRecisiOn Medicine Translational Research (PROMoTeR) Center, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Mass. Electronic address:

Published: April 2019

In this large, multi-ethnic GWAS of asthma, we identified novel associations with potential functional relevance for asthma susceptibility in older adults of diverse racial backgrounds.

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