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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder with a strong genetic inheritance. Although more than 100 loci were reported through the genome-wide association study of European populations, the genetic underpinning of asthma in African American individuals remains largely elusive.We aimed to identify genetic loci associated with asthma in African American individuals.Three cohorts were genotyped at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia by using the Illumina single-nucleotide polymorphism array platform. Genotype imputation was performed by using the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) reference panel, which includes whole genome sequencing data from more than 100,000 individuals. A meta-analysis of 3 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia cohorts and 10 Consortium on Asthma among African Ancestry Populations in the Americas cohorts, totaling 19,628 subjects, was conducted to identify genetic loci associated with asthma in African American individuals.Our study identified 12 loci surpassing the classical genome-wide significance threshold (5 × 10Our findings provide candidate genetic loci for therapeutic target identification and prioritization for African populations.

Tuning the structural features that furnish electrochemically active sites with improved kinetic diffusion can provide an alternative way to achieve high performance of electrocatalysis. Here, we report a nano-structure of Ni2P/C(NPC) nano-sheets supported on nickel foam (NF) that is prepared by sequenced nitrogen pyrolysis and gas phosphatization of Ni-MOF nanosheets. Initially, the passivated surface of nickel foam facilitates the oriented growth of Ni-MOF nanosheets, which is crucial for the maintenance of structure stability during the subsequent pyrolysis and phosphatization treatment. As a result, more catalytic active sites are exposed than the non-oriented NPC catalysts and diffusion kinetics is favorable. Consequently, the obtained composite can exhibit excellent hydrogen evolution catalytic activity in an alkaline electrolyte. For hydrogen evolution reaction, a current density of 10 mA cm−2 is provided at an overpotential of 97 mV and its onset overpotential is only 29 mV. Meanwhile, good morphology and catalytic activity can be maintained after 12 h of stability testing. This excellent performance is believed to be the result of NPC nanosheet structure on NF derived from the facet-oriented control of pristine Ni-MOF, enabling excellent reaction kinetics.

The ingenious design and synthesis of bifunctional electrocatalysts with high activity and robust stability for hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction (HER and OER) is desirable and challenging. Herein, bimetallic phosphides CoFeP with hollow microspheres structure has been synthesized through a facile gas phosphorization as bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting. SEM and TEM demonstrate the formation of uniform hollow microspheres of CoFeP. The hollow structure of CoFeP is helpful to increase the exposed actives and the larger contact surface with electrolyte. The bimetallic composites can provide the better intrinsic activity. Compared with single metallic phosphides CoP and FeP, the obvious enhancement of electrocatalytic performances of CoFeP can be observed. The electrochemical results show that the bimetallic CoFeP hollow microspheres only have the lower overpotential of 177 and 350 mV (vs. RHE) to drive a current density of 10 mA cm−2 for HER and OER, respectively. The reasons may be due to the hollow nanostructure and the synergistic effect from bimetallic phosphides. This work provides a facile and effective way to design excellent phosphides electrocatalysts for water splitting based on gas phosphorization of bimetallic oxides precursors.

Pyridyltetrazolium is an advantageous molecular precursor for its abundant coordination sites, which is adequate for the design of novel multi-dimensional structures. Three compounds of P-pyridyltetrazolium with 1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylic acid 1, M-pyridyltetrazolium with 1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylic acid 2, and P-pyridyltetrazolium with 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid 3 were synthesized and investigated. Compounds 1 and 2 indicated that the position of the coordination nitrogen atom will affect the structure of the supramolecule. Compound 1 finally formed a three-dimensional network through hydrogen bonds of O–H⋯O and O–H⋯N, whereas compound 2 formed a two-dimensional layered structure and water molecules play an important role in the construction of the two-dimensional layer. In addition to O–H⋯N hydrogen bond interaction, a weak C–H⋯C hydrogen bond also has significant effect on the construction of compound 3. Some main supramolecular synthons observed in three compounds were shown to construct most of these hydrogen bonding networks. The three compounds have been characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, 1H nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Furthermore, their supramolecular structures are fully analyzed.

Two new metal-organic frameworks {[Ni0.5(DTA)0.5(H2O)]‧H2O}n (1) and [Ni(DTA)]n (2), where H2DTA = 2,5-di(1H-imidazol-1-yl)terephthalic acid, were constructed from the same reaction system at 120 °C and 180 °C, respectively. Different reaction temperatures were found to trigger different assembly processes and final structures. Single-crystal X-ray analyses show that compound 1 exhibits a 2D layered structure, further forming a 3D supramolecular by hydrogen bonding, while compound 2 shows 2-fold interpenetrating 3D framework with PtS topology. Compounds 1–2 have been evaluated as electrode materials for supercapacitors. The results show that compound 1 exhibits better electrochemical performance than 2. It may be ascribed to 2D layered structures facilitating electron transport and sufficient interlayer spaces available for the storage.