BACKGROUND: Asthma is a complex disease characterized by striking ethnic disparities
not explained entirely by environmental, social, cultural, or economic factors. Of the limited …

Asthma is a complex disease with striking disparities across racial and ethnic groups.
Despite its relatively high burden, representation of individuals of African ancestry in asthma …

… Faruque16, Trevor S. Ferguson 17, Camila Figueiredo18, Jean G. Ford19, Weiniu Gan20,
Pierre-Antoine Gourraud21, Nadia N. … Lange1, Antoine Lizee21, Pissamai Maul26 …

BACKGROUND Asthma is a complex disease with striking disparities across racial and
ethnic groups, which may be partly attributable to genetic factors. One of the main goals of the …

BACKGROUND: Both a functional promoter polymorphism in the gene encoding CD14 (C-260T)
and exposure to endotoxin are believed to play key roles in modulating the immune …

… We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Pissamai and Trevor Maul, Paul Levett,
Anselm Hennis, P. Michele Lashley, Raana Naidu, Malcolm Howitt, and Timothy Roach, as well …

… We are especially grateful to Mrs Pissamai Maul, Mr Trevor Maul, Dr Kathryn Held, Ms
Sharon Patterson, Caitlin Dorer, and Kimberly Donnelly for field work and to Drs Harold Watson, …

The African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere represents one of the largest forced
migrations in history and had a profound impact on genetic diversity in modern populations. To …

Admixture is a potential source of confounding in genetic association studies, so it becomes
important to detect and estimate admixture in a sample of unrelated individuals. Populations …

… We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Pissamai and Trevor Maul, Paul Levett,
Anselm Hennis, P. Michele Lashley, Raana Naidu, Malcolm Howitt, and Timothy Roach (BAGS), …