The APOE ε4 allele is associated with a reduction in FEV₁/FVC in women: A cross-sectional analysis of the Long Life Family Study

• Alexander M. Kulminski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander M. Kulminski, Amisha V. Barochia, Stewart J. Levine

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Alexander.Kulminski@duke.edu (AMK); levines@nhlbi.nih.gov (SJL)

  Affiliation Biodemography of Aging Research Unit, Social Sciences Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Amisha V. Barochia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander M. Kulminski, Amisha V. Barochia, Stewart J. Levine

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Asthma and Lung Inflammation, Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Yury Loika,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodemography of Aging Research Unit, Social Sciences Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Nalini Raghavachari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute on Aging, Gateway Building, Suite, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Konstantin G. Arbeev,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodemography of Aging Research Unit, Social Sciences Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4195-7832

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• Mary K. Wojczynski,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Bharat Thyagarajan,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

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• Badri N. Vardarajan,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Kaare Christensen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Danish Aging Research Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark, Department of Clinical Genetics and Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, Odense C, Denmark

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• Anatoliy I. Yashin,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodemography of Aging Research Unit, Social Sciences Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Stewart J. Levine

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander M. Kulminski, Amisha V. Barochia, Stewart J. Levine

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Alexander.Kulminski@duke.edu (AMK); levines@nhlbi.nih.gov (SJL)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Asthma and Lung Inflammation, Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9313-9746

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