A genome-wide association study of COPD identifies a susceptibility locus on chromosome 19 q 13

Channing Laboratory and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, King of Prussia, PA, USA, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, University of British Columbia Department of Radiology and James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart and Lung Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Thorax Institute, Hospital Clinic IDIBAPS, Universitat Pompeu-Fabra (Barcelona) and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Fundación Caubet-Cimera, Mallorca, Spain, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands and Haukeland University Hospital and Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway