Association of Forced Vital Capacity with the Developmental Gene NCOR2.

BACKGROUND:Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) is an important predictor of all-cause mortality in the absence of chronic respiratory conditions. Epidemiological evidence highlights the role of early life factors on adult FVC, pointing to environmental exposures and genes affecting lung development as risk...

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Main Authors: Cosetta Minelli, Charlotte H Dean, Matthew Hind, Alexessander Couto Alves, André F S Amaral, Valerie Siroux, Ville Huikari, María Soler Artigas, David M Evans, Daan W Loth, Yohan Bossé, Dirkje S Postma, Don Sin, John Thompson, Florence Demenais, John Henderson, SpiroMeta consortium, CHARGE consortium, Emmanuelle Bouzigon, Deborah Jarvis, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Peter Burney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4737618?pdf=render