Limited overlap in significant hits between genome-wide association studies on two airflow obstruction definitions in the same population.
van der Plaat DA., Vonk JM., Lahousse L., de Jong K., Faiz A., Nedeljkovic I., Amin N., van Diemen CC., Brusselle GG., Bossé Y., Brandsma C-A., Hao K., Paré PD., van Duijn CM., Postma DS., Boezen HM.
BACKGROUND:Airflow obstruction is a hallmark of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and is defined as either the ratio between forced expiratory volume in one second and forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC)