Associations between the 17q21 region and allergic rhinitis in 5 birth cohorts

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ² Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, and Center for Innovative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
• ³ Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, and Center for Innovative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Translational Immunology Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁴ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ⁵ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics/Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pulmonology, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, and Center for Innovative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Molecular Neurology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹² School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹³ Institute of Environmental Medicine and Centre for Allergy Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁴ Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians - University of Munich, Dr von Hauner Children's Hospital, Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁷ Institute of Environmental Medicine and Centre for Allergy Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Sach's Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: erik.melen@ki.se.