A postdoctoral fellowship is available at NIH / National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to participate in an ongoing research program investigating the role of genetic factors, including epigenetics, and environmental exposures in the development and exacerbation of asthma, allergy, and impaired pulmonary function.

Current work includes genome wide association analyses of childhood and adult asthma, COPD, and impaired pulmonary function and consideration of environmental interactions. We use both family-based and population-based designs. We are also examining early life factors in the development of respiratory and allergic disease in a large birth cohort in Norway. In the birth cohort setting we are also examining associations between pregnancy exposures and epigenetic changes in the offspring as well as relationships between epigenetic changes and respiratory and allergic outcomes. Other studies include an ongoing investigation of adult asthma within a large cohort of farmers and a prospective cohort of adults of Chinese ethnicity in Singapore.

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• Letter describing areas of research interest
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