Application of an algorithm for the diagnosis of asthma in Chinese families: limitations and alternatives for the phenotypic assessment of asthma in family-based genetic studies.

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Phenotype assessment is a crucial issue in gene mapping studies of asthma. Recently, Panhuysen and coworkers proposed an algorithm to define the asthma phenotype in gene mapping family-based studies. We classified members of 2,756 Chinese families ascertained on the basis of the presence of two or more siblings and no more than one parent with asthma using a slightly modified version of the aforementioned...

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