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SUBMITTER: Daya M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6382865 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190220 1
Asthma is a complex disease with striking disparities across racial and ethnic groups. Despite its relatively high burden, representation of individuals of African ancestry in asthma genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been inadequate, and true associations in these underrepresented minority groups have been inconclusive. We report the results of a genome-wide meta-analysis from the Consortium on Asthma among African Ancestry Populations (CAAPA; 7009 asthma cases, 7645 controls). We find ...[more]