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1 Clinical EpidemiologyUnit, Faculty ofMedicine,Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. 2 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. 3 Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Hunter Medical Research Institute, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. 5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand. 6 Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 7 Division of Therapeutics and Molecular Medicine, University Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom. 8 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 9 Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China. 10 Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. 11 deCODE Genetics, Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland. 12 Department of Genetics, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.