Multiethnic meta-analysis identifies ancestry-specific and cross-ancestry loci for pulmonary function.

1. Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 30;9(1):2976. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05369-0.

Multiethnic meta-analysis identifies ancestry-specific and cross-ancestry loci for pulmonary function.

Wyss AB(1), Sofer T(2)(3), Lee MK(1), Terzikhan N(4)(5), Nguyen JN(6), Lahousse L(5)(7), Latourelle JC(8), Smith AV(9)(10)(11), Bartz TM(12)(13), Feitosa MF(14), Gao W(15), Ahluwalia TS(16)(17), Tang W(18), Oldmeadow C(19), Duan Q(20), de Jong K(21), Wojczynski MK(14), Wang XQ(22), Noordam R(23), Hartwig FP(24)(25), Jackson VE(26), Wang T(27), Obeidat M(28), Hobbs BD(29)(30), Huan T(31), Gui H(32), Parker MM(29), Hu D(33), Mogil LS(34), Kichaev G(35), Jin J(36), Graff M(37), Harris TB(38), Kalhan R(39), Heckbert SR(40), Paternoster L(25), Burkart KM(41), Liu Y(42), Holliday EG(19), Wilson JG(43), Vonk JM(21), Sanders JL(44), Barr RG(45)(46), de Mutsert R(47), Menezes AMB(24), Adams HHH(5)(48), van den Berge M(49), Joehanes R(50), Levin AM(51), Liberto J(33), Launer LJ(38), Morrison AC(52), Sitlani CM(12), Celedón JC(53), Kritchevsky SB(54), Scott RJ(19)(55), Christensen K(56), Rotter JI(57), Bonten TN(58)(59), Wehrmeister FC(24), Bossé Y(60), Xiao S(32), Oh S(33), Franceschini N(37), Brody JA(12), Kaplan RC(61), Lohman K(42), McEvoy M(19), Province MA(14), Rosendaal FR(47), Taylor KD(57), Nickle DC(62), Williams LK(32)(63), Burchard EG(33)(64), Wheeler HE(34), Sin DD(28)(65), Gudnason V(9)(10), North KE(37), Fornage M(66), Psaty BM(12)(40)(67)(68), Myers RH(8), O’Connor G(69)(70), Hansen T(16), Laurie CC(13), Cassano PA(18)(71), Sung J(72), Kim WJ(73), Attia JR(19), Lange L(74), Boezen HM(21), Thyagarajan B(75), Rich SS(6), Mook-Kanamori DO(47)(58), Horta BL(24), Uitterlinden AG(76), Im HK(77), Cho MH(29)(30), Brusselle GG(4)(5)(78), Gharib SA(79), Dupuis J(15)(69), Manichaikul A(6), London SJ(80).

Author information: (1)Epidemiology Branch National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA. (2)Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. (3)Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. (4)Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, 9000, Belgium. (5)Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3000, CA, The Netherlands. (6)Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA. (7)Department of Bioanalysis, FFW, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium. (8)Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. (9)Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, 201, Iceland. (10)Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland. (11)Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. (12)Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA. (13)Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA. (14)Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 63110, USA. (15)Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. (16)The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Metabolic Genetics Section, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark. (17)Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, 2820, Denmark. (18)Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA. (19)Hunter Medical Research Institute and Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2305, Australia. (20)Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. (21)Department of Epidemiologie, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 GZ, Groningen, Netherlands. (22)Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA. (23)Department of Internal Medicine, Section Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2300 RC, The Netherlands. (24)Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, 96020-220, Pelotas, Brazil. (25)Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK. (26)Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK. (27)Integrative Bioinformatics Support Group National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA. (28)The University of British Columbia Center for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada. (29)Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s