A Canadian genome-wide association study and meta-analysis confirm HLA as a risk factor for peanut allergy independent of asthma

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and the Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• ² Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ³ Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology and the GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• ⁵ Clinic for Pediatric Allergy, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁶ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁷ QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁸ Department of Pediatric Allergology, Diaconessenhuis Voorburg, Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis, Delft, The Netherlands.
• ⁹ Department of Allergology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Australia, and the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹¹ Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹³ Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn School of Medicine and University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹⁵ Private Practice, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, Calif.
• ¹⁷ Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, Calif.
• ¹⁸ Department of Ophthalmology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Redwood City Medical Center, Redwood City, Calif.
• ¹⁹ Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.
• ²⁰ School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Australia and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
• ²¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
• ²² School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
• ²³ Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
• ²⁴ Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: denise.daley@hli.ubc.ca.