Submitted on September 13, 2007
Accepted on July 10, 2008

ARG1 is a Novel Bronchodilator Response Gene: Screening and Replication in Four Asthma Cohorts

¹ Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Pulmonary Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, ² Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, ³ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, ⁴ Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, ⁵ Centers for Clinical Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics, Nemours Children's Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA, ⁶ Vermont Lung Center, Department of Medicine and Physiology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA, ⁷ Center for Human Genomics, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA, ⁸ Pulmonary Clinical Research, Sepracor Inc, Marlborough, MA, USA, ⁹ Cardiopulmonary Genomics Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, ¹⁰ Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

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