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Published in final edited form as: Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2012 Dec 14;161(1):37–43. doi: 10.1159/000343004

Table 5.

Respiratory outcomes and methylation of repetitive elements

	Alu		LINE-1
	N=609		N=605
Model 1^*:	β	P value	β	P value

Self Reported Asthma Diagnosis	−0.18	0.37	0.09	0.79

	N=395		N=391
Model 2^*	β	P value	β	P value

Methacholine Responsiveness	0.07	0.56	0.20	0.37

Models adjusted for bmi, age, pack-years, current smoking, percent eosinophils, white blood cell count (cells/mm³), and air pollutants (7-day moving average of PM2.5 and black carbon levels)