Lona-Durazo, Frida
Hernandez-Pacheco, Natalia
Fan, Shaohua
Zhang, Tongwu
Choi, Jiyeon
Kovacs, Michael A.
Loftus, Stacie K.
Le, Phuong
Edwards, Melissa
Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.
Eng, Celeste
Huntsman, Scott
Hu, Donglei
Gómez-Cabezas, Enrique Javier
Marín-Padrón, Lilia Caridad
Grauholm, Jonas
Mors, Ole
Burchard, Esteban G.
Norton, Heather L.
Pavan, William J.
Brown, Kevin M.
Tishkoff, Sarah
Pino-Yanes, Maria
Beleza, Sandra
Marcheco-Teruel, Beatriz
Parra, Esteban J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2057-8577
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Medical Research Council (MR/M01987X/1)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (FI16/00136, AC15/00015)
European Social Funds from the European Union (ESF invests in your future)
Ramon y Cajal (RYC-2015-17205)
National Institutes of Health (1R01DK104339-0, 1R01GM113657-01, 1R01HL117004, R01Hl128439)
National Science Foundation (BCS-1317217)
Sandler Foundation
American Asthma Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Harry Wm. and Diana V Hind Distinguished Professor in Pharaceutical Sciences II
National Institutes of Health and Environmental Health Sciences (R01ES015794, R21ES24844)
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (1P60MD006902, U54MD009523, 1R01MD010443)
Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (24RT-0025)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (grant METHIS (ANR-15-CE32-0009-01))
Article History
Received: 24 April 2019
Accepted: 8 July 2019
First Online: 17 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations for human subject research. The Cuba study was conducted following the ethical principles for medical research, and was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Cuban Centre of Medical Genetics at the Medical University of Havana, Cuba. Each participant gave a written informed consent prior to sample collection. The Cape Verde study was approved by the Human Subjects Committees of all participant institutions and by the National Ethical Committee for Health Research of Cape Verde, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The SAGE II and GALA II studies were approved by the institutional review boards of the University of California San Francisco and all participant centres. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants or from their surrogates for participants under 18 years old.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.