Lack of Association of the Caspase-12 Long Allele with Community-Acquired Pneumonia in People of African Descent

• Jiwang Chen,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Esther S. Wilson,

  Affiliation Oakbrook Pediatrics, Summerville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Mary K. Dahmer,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Michael W. Quasney,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Grant W. Waterer,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Charles Feldman,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Richard G. Wunderink

  * E-mail: r-wunderink@northwestern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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