In the EWAS of current asthma at 7.5 years, cg17676835 (AP2A2) was not associated with current asthma at 7.5 years when adjusted for granulocytes only (basic cells), whereas cg10159529 (IL5RA) was strongly associated in the same direction (P = 0.0001) but attenuated when adjusted for cell counts that included eosinophils and neutrophils (P = 0.304). Here, IL5RA is linked to asthma.