Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations

Asthma is a complex disease with striking disparities across racial and ethnic groups. Despite its high burden, representation of African ancestry individuals in asthma genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been inadequate to date, and true associations in these underrepresented minority groups may have been missed. Here, we report the largest asthma GWAS to date from the Consortium on Asthma among African Ancestry Populations (CAAPA)....