African Ancestry Is Associated with Asthma Risk in African Americans

Carlos Flores; Shwu-Fan Ma; María Pino-Yanes; Michael S. Wade; Lina Pérez-Méndez; Rick A. Kittles; Deli Wang; Srinivas Papaiahgari; Jean G. Ford; Rajesh Kumar; Joe G. N. Garcia

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026807

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African Ancestry Is Associated with Asthma Risk in African Americans

Carlos Flores ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Flores, Shwu-Fan Ma

* E-mail: cflores@ull.es

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain
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Shwu-Fan Ma ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Flores, Shwu-Fan Ma

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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María Pino-Yanes,

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain
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Michael S. Wade,

Affiliation Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Lina Pérez-Méndez,

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain
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Rick A. Kittles,

Affiliation Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Deli Wang,

Affiliation Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Srinivas Papaiahgari,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Jean G. Ford,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Rajesh Kumar,

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Joe G. N. Garcia

Affiliation Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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African Ancestry Is Associated with Asthma Risk in African Americans

Carlos Flores,
Shwu-Fan Ma,
María Pino-Yanes,
Michael S. Wade,
Lina Pérez-Méndez,
Rick A. Kittles,
Deli Wang,
Srinivas Papaiahgari,
Jean G. Ford,
Rajesh Kumar

Published: January 3, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026807

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