150 authors at 20 institutions in 14 countries.
Abril G Izquierdo *Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Richard Packer *Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Robert J HallDivision of Respiratory Medicine and NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Chiara BatiniDepartment of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Rebecca J ThompsonDivision of Respiratory Medicine and NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Chandan PavuluriChanning Division of Network Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Vidhi MalikChanning Division of Network Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Brian D HobbsChanning Division of Network Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9564-0745 Matthew MollChanning Division of Network Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Wonji KimChanning Division of Network Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1249-797X Ruth Tal-SingerCOPD Foundation, Washington DC, USA.
Per BakkeDepartment of Clinical Science, Unversity of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Katherine A FawcettDepartment of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Catherine JohnDepartment of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Noemi Nicole PigaDepartment of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Alfred PozarickijNuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Kuang LinNuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Iona Y MillwoodNuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group
Sara R A WijnantDepartment of Respiratory Diseases, Ghent Universital Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Guy BrusselleDepartment of Respiratory Diseases, Ghent Universital Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Ani ManichaikulCenter for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
R Graham BarrDepartment of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Michael R BrownHuman Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Matthias WielscherMRC Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Medea ImbodenDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland.
Traci M BartzCardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Sina A GharibComputational Medicine Core, Center for Lung Biology, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2480-4367 Claudia FlexederInstitute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Stefan KarraschInstitute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Beate StubbeDepartment of Internal Medicine B-Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Victor E OrtegaDivision of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Deborah A MeyersDepartment of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Eugene R BleeckerDepartment of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Stacey B GabrielBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Namrata GuptaBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jing-Hua ZhaoDepartment of Public and Primary Care, Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Ailin F HansenK.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Laxmi BhattaK.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Martha L DaviglusInstitute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Bing YuHuman Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Hanfei XuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
George T O'ConnorPulmonary Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Qatar Genome Program Research (QGPR) Consortium
Annelies M SlatsDepartment of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Benjamin H MullinDepartment of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
Jennie HuiBusselton Population Medical Research Institute, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
Alan JamesBusselton Population Medical Research Institute, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
John BeilbySchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
Karina PatasovaDepartment of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK.
Annah B WyssEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Sinjini SikdarEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1230-5162 Mikyeong LeeEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3036-3684 Nicola PirastuCentre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Katherine A KentistouCentre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Alexander T WilliamsDepartment of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Robert C FreeLeicester National Institute for Health and Care Research, Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.
Xueyang WangLeicester National Institute for Health and Care Research, Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.
John L MorrisonDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Zhanghua ChenDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Rachel E FoongWal-yan Respiratory Research Centre, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Adele TaylorLothian Birth Cohorts group, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Paul RedmondLothian Birth Cohorts group, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
James P CookDepartment of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Lars LindDepartment of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Terho LehtimäkiDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center-Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Olli T RaitakariDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
Taina RantanenFaculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Graham L HallWal-yan Respiratory Research Centre, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
W James GaudermanDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Chris BrightlingLeicester National Institute for Health and Care Research, Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.
Tarja LaitinenAdministration Center, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
Dennis O Mook-KanamoriDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Eleftheria ZegginiWellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Caroline HaywardMedical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Carsten Oliver SchmidtInstitute for Community Medicine, SHIP-Clinical Epidemiological Research, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Nicole Probst-HenschDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland.
Alanna C MorrisonHuman Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6381-4296 Ozren PolasekSchool of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia.
Edwin K SilvermanChanning Division of Network Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Andrew P MorrisCentre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6805-6014 Stephanie J LondonEpidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4911-5290 Michael H ChoChanning Division of Network Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4907-1657