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. 2017 Jan 3;6:e20532. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20532

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of GALA II participants with methylation data, stratified by ethnicity. Continuous variables are reported with inter-quartile range in brackets.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20532.004

Mexican

Puerto rican

Mixed latino

Other latino

n

276

220

16

61

Males (%)

125 (45.3%)

127 (57.7%)

6 (37.5%)

28 (45.9%)

Age

11.4 [9.3: 14.7]

12.3 [10.4: 14.2]

11.8 [10.7: 14.9]

11.8 [10: 15.7]

Asthma cases (%)

124 (44.9%)

147 (66.8%)

9 (56.3%)

31 (50.8%)

Ancestry (n = 524)

African

4.3%

[2.9%: 6.0%)

22.8%

[16.6%: 29.4%)

8.5%

[5.6%: 19.2%)

12.3%

[6.3%: 25.8%)

Native American

55.4%

[44.5%: 65.7%)

11.2%

[9.8%: 13%)

31.5%

[20.9%: 45.6%)

32.8%

[10.4%: 49.3%)

European

40.5%

[29.9%: 50.2%)

65.7%

[59.2%: 71%)

50.5%

[44.6%: 57.6%)

48.9%

[40%: 58.5%)

Recruitment Site

Chicago

140 (50.7%)

15 (6.8%)

11 (68.9%)

15 (24.6%)

New York

18 (6.5%)

10 (4.5%)

1 (6.3%)

23 (37.7%)

Puerto Rico

0

193 (87.7%)

0

0

San Francisco

78 (28.3%)

0

2 (12.5%)

23 (37.7%)

Houston

40 (14.5%)

2 (0.9%)

2 (12.5%)

5 (8.2%)

Cell Counts (estimated)

Granulo cytes

51.2%

[46.0%: 55.7%)

51.6%

[46.8%: 57%)

51%

[43.6%: 57.2%)

49.1%

[43.8%: 55.8%)

Lympho cytes

41.9%

[36.9%: 46.6%)

41.8%

[36.9%: 46.5%)

41.9%

[36.1%: 51.6%)

43.9%

[36.8%: 49.6%)

Mono cytes

7.1%

[5.8%: 8.3%)

6.74%

[5.74%: 8.24%)

6.6%

[5.7%: 7.6%)

7.4%

[6.2%: 8.6%)