About the Authors

Cosetta Minelli

cosetta.minelli1@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Charlotte H. Dean

Affiliations Leukocyte Biology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell, Oxon, United Kingdom

Matthew Hind

Affiliation Respiratory Department, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Alexessander Couto Alves

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

André F. S. Amaral

Affiliations Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, London, United Kingdom

Valerie Siroux

Affiliations Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IAB, Team of Environmental Epidemiology applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, F-38000, Grenoble, France, INSERM, IAB, Team of Environmental Epidemiology applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, F-38000, Grenoble, France, CHU de Grenoble, IAB, Team of Environmental Epidemiology applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, F-38000, Grenoble, France

Ville Huikari

Affiliation Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

María Soler Artigas

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

David M. Evans

Affiliations University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Daan W. Loth

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Yohan Bossé

Affiliation Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada

Dirkje S. Postma

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Don Sin

Affiliation The University of British Columbia Center for Heart Lung Innovation, St-Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

John Thompson

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Florence Demenais

Affiliations INSERM, UMRS-946, Genetic Variation of Human Diseases Unit, Paris, France, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Universitaire d’Hématologie, F-75007, Paris, France

John Henderson

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

SpiroMeta consortium

Membership of the SpiroMeta consortium and CHARGE consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Affiliation SpiroMeta consortium, Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

CHARGE consortium

Membership of the SpiroMeta consortium and CHARGE consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Affiliation CHARGE consortium, Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Emmanuelle Bouzigon

Affiliations INSERM, UMRS-946, Genetic Variation of Human Diseases Unit, Paris, France, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Universitaire d’Hématologie, F-75007, Paris, France

Deborah Jarvis

Affiliations Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, London, United Kingdom

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, London, United Kingdom, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Center for Life Course Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, P.O. Box 5000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Kajaanintie 50, P.O. Box 20, FI-90220, Oulu, 90029 OYS, Finland

Peter Burney

Affiliations Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM PB CHD MH. Analyzed the data: CM ACA AFSA VH EB MSA DME YB. Wrote the paper: CM CHD MH PB AFSA JT YB. Participated in the acquisition of the data: MRJ DJ EB MSA JH YB ACA VH VS FD DWL DME DSP DS. Revised the manuscript: CM CHD MH ACA AFSA VS VH MSA DME DWL YB DSP DS JT FD JH EB DJ MRJ PB.