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Data in this manuscript were published as an abstract at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Congress 2014 but not in any other format.
Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC) is funded by private and public research funds all listed on www.copsac.com. The Lundbeck Foundation (grant no. R16-A1694); the Ministry of Health (grant no. 903516); the Danish Council for Strategic Research (grant no. 0603-00280B); the Danish Council for Independent Research and the Capital Region Research Foundation have provided core support for COPSAC. Thermo Fischer Scientific Inc sponsored the IgE analyses. No pharmaceutical company was involved in the study. The funding agencies did not have any role in design and conduct of the study; collection, management, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. S. L. Johnston is supported by ERC FP7 Advanced grant 233015, a Chair from Asthma UK (CH11SJ), MRC Centre Grant G1000758, and Predicta FP7 Collaborative Project grant 260895. H. Bisgaard is employed by the Capital Region of Denmark, which has received funding from the Lundbeck Foundation and has received or has grants pending from the European Research Council, National Institutes of Health, and Novo Nordisk and has received compensation for providing expert testimony from the European Medicines Agency. The rest of the authors declare that they have no relevant conflicts of interest.