Genetic predisposition to obesity is associated with asthma in US Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Allergy. 2018 Jul;73(7):1547-1550. doi: 10.1111/all.13450. Epub 2018 Apr 22.

Y Guo^{1

2}, J-Y Moon³, C C Laurie⁴, K E North⁵, L A P Sanchez-Johnsen⁶, S Davis⁵, B Yu⁷, S M Nyenhuis⁸, R Kaplan³, D Rastogi⁹, Q Qi³

¹ Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
² Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Human Genetics Center, UT Health, Houston, TX, USA.
⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.

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Keywords: U.S. Hispanics/Latinos; asthma; genetic predisposition; genetics; obesity.

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