Rationale and design of the multiethnic Pharmacogenomics in Childhood Asthma consortium

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ³ Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology & Research, Singapore 138648, Singapore.
• ⁴ Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev & Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
• ⁶ Centre for Human Molecular Genetics & Pharmacogenomics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
• ⁷ Allergy Service, Infanta Leonor Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁸ Departments of Medicine, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
• ⁹ Allergy Unit, IBIMA, Regional University Hospital of Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Behavioral Sciences institute, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• ¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• ¹² Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy, & Immunology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, & the Allergy & Immunology Division, Department of Paediatric Medicine, KK Children's Hospital, Singapore.
• ¹⁴ Asthma Center, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, University of Connecticut Health Center, CT 06106, USA.
• ¹⁵ Respiratory Division, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• ¹⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine & Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁸ Department of Pediatric Pulmonology & Pediatric Allergology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁹ Groningen Research Institute for Asthma & COPD, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ²⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ²¹ CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
• ²² Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
• ²³ Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
• ²⁴ Department of Women's & Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ²⁵ Department of Pediatric Pneumology & Allergy, University Children's Hospital Regensburg (KUNO), Regensburg, Germany.
• ²⁶ Laboratory of Pharmacology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
• ²⁷ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ²⁸ Centre of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ²⁹ Academic Department of Paediatrics, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, Brighton, UK.
• ³⁰ Population Pharmacogenetics Group, Biomedical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
• ³¹ Department of Molecular & Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ³² Faculty for Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
• ³³ Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ³⁴ Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
• ³⁵ Department of Genetics, Cell & Immuno-biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
• ³⁶ Central Laboratory, Heim Pal Children Hospital, Budapest, Hungary.
• ³⁷ The Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
• ³⁸ Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
• ³⁹ Child Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.