Genetic and environment in asthma: the answer of twin studies

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et al. [1] presentthe results of a large Danish population-based twin studyon asthma. In this study, the heritability in liability to asth-ma, i.e. the proportion of variance due to genetic factors,is estimated to be 0.77 for males and 0.68 for females. Inother studies, the heritability of asthma is estimated to bebetween 0.36 and 0.75 [2–4] (table 1). Thus, the results ofthis Danish study are consistent with...

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