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- September 26, 2017.
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- Ma’en Obeidat1*,
- Maxime Lamontagne2*,
- Jean-Christophe Bérubé2*,
- Michael H Cho3,4,
- Brian D. Hobbs3,4,
- Kim de Jong5,6,
- H. Marike Boezen5,6,5,
- the International COPD Genetics Consortium,
- David Nickle7,
- Ke Hao8,
- Wim Timens9,
- Maarten van den Berge10,
- Philippe Joubert2,11,
- Michel Laviolette2,
- Don D Sin1,12,
- Peter D Paré1,12 and
- Yohan Bossé2,13
- 1The University of British Columbia Centre for HeartLung Innovation, St Paul’s Hospital,Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 2Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Quebec, Canada
- 3Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- 4Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston,MA, USA
- 5University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
- 6University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, the Netherlands
- 7Merck Research Laboratories, MRL, Seattle, Washington, USA
- 8Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,New York, NY, USA
- 9Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, GRIAC Research Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 10Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, GRIAC Research Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 11Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
- 12Respiratory Division, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 13Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
- Correspondence to:
Yohan Bossé, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Laval University, Department of Molecular Medicine, Canada Research Chair in Genomics of Heart and Lung Diseases, Director of the Quebec Respiratory Health Network Tissue Bank, Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Pavillon Marguerite-d’Youville, Y2106, 2725 chemin Sainte-Foy, Québec (Québec), Canada, G1V 4G5, Tel: 418-656-8711 ext. 3725 email: yohan.bosse{at}criucpq.ulaval.ca
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.