Open Access Highly Accessed Research

Transient receptor potential genes, smoking, occupational exposures and cough in adults

Lidwien AM Smit1,2,3*, Manolis Kogevinas4,5,6,7, Josep M Antó4,5,6,8, Emmanuelle Bouzigon10,11,9, Juan R González4,5,6, Nicole Le Moual1,2, Hans Kromhout3, Anne-Elie Carsin4,5,6, Isabelle Pin12,13,14, Deborah Jarvis15, Roel Vermeulen3, Christer Janson16, Joachim Heinrich17, Ivo Gut18,19, Mark Lathrop18, Miguel A Valverde20, Florence Demenais10,11,9 and Francine Kauffmann1,2

1 INSERM, CESP Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Respiratory and environmental epidemiology Team, Villejuif F-94807, France

2 Université Paris Sud 11, UMRS 1018, Villejuif F-94807, France

3 Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands

4 Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain

5 Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), Barcelona, Spain

6 CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

7 National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

8 Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

9 INSERM, U946, F-75010, Paris, France

10 Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Paris F-75010, France

11 Fondation Jean Dausset-Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), Paris F-75010, France

12 INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France

13 Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Grenoble, France

14 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

15 Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK

16 Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

17 Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre, Munich, Germany

18 Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Institut de Génomique, Centre National de Génotypage (CNG), Evry, France

19 Currently Centro Nacional de Analisis Genomico, Barcelona, Spain

20 Laboratory of Molecular Physiology and Channelopathies, Universitat Pompeu, Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

For all author emails, please log on.

Respiratory Research 2012, 13:26 doi:10.1186/1465-9921-13-26

Published: 23 March 2012

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Additional Methods, Tables and Figures.

Format: DOC Size: 437KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer

Open Data