Genetics of asthma and allergic disease

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Atopic (allergic) asthma is the most common disease of childhood and is strongly genetic in origin. Many genome-wide screens for asthma and its associated traits have now been carried out, and genetic linkage has been consistently identified in several regions. It is probable that these loci contain major genes influencing atopy and asthma. Candidate genes have already been identified from the cytokine cluster on...

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