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Sex- and age-of-onset-based locus heterogeneity in asthma.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 2001
Srivastava A, Cotton C, Paterson A D
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is a complex disease with a genetic component. The results of genome-wide linkage studies imply that locus heterogeneity is likely to be an important feature of the genetics of asthma. To attempt to reduce locus heterogeneity, we hypothesized that the following may form the bases for locus heterogeneity at some asthma susceptibility loci: sex of affected individuals, parental origin of alleles shared by...
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