North African Influences and Potential Bias in Case-Control Association Studies in the Spanish Population

• María Pino-Yanes,

  Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

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• Almudena Corrales,

  Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

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• Santiago Basaldúa,

  Affiliation Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

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• Alexis Hernández,

  Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Toxicología y Ciencias Forenses, Delegación de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

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• Luisa Guerra,

  Affiliation Hematology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

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• Jesús Villar,

  Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Keenan Research Center, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada

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• Carlos Flores

  * E-mail: cflores@ull.es

  Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

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