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SUBMITTER: Torgerson DG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3445408 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature genetics 20110731 9
Asthma is a common disease with a complex risk architecture including both genetic and environmental factors. We performed a meta-analysis of North American genome-wide association studies of asthma in 5,416 individuals with asthma (cases) including individuals of European American, African American or African Caribbean, and Latino ancestry, with replication in an additional 12,649 individuals from the same ethnic groups. We identified five susceptibility loci. Four were at previously reported l ...[more]