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A Large-Scale, Consortium-Based Genomewide Association Study of Asthma
Author(s) -
Miriam F. Moffatt,
Marta Gut,
Florence Démenais,
David P. Strachan,
Emmanuelle Bouzigon,
Simon Heath,
Erika von Mutius,
Martin Farrall,
Mark Lathrop,
William Cookson
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0906312
Subject(s) - asthma , genotyping , medicine , single nucleotide polymorphism , genome wide association study , locus (genetics) , allele , genetic association , genetics , immunology , population , disease , genotype , gene , biology , environmental health
Susceptibility to asthma is influenced by genes and environment; implicated genes may indicate pathways for therapeutic intervention. Genetic risk factors may be useful in identifying subtypes of asthma and determining whether intermediate phenotypes, such as elevation of the total serum IgE level, are causally linked to disease.

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