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Mapping and identifying genes for asthma and psoriasis.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Aug 2005
Kere Juha
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility genes for complex diseases are characterized by reduced penetrance, caused by the influence of other genes, the environment or stochastic events. Recently, positional cloning efforts have yielded several candidate susceptibility genes in different complex disorders such as Crohn's disease and asthma. Within a genetic locus, however, the identification of the effector gene may pose further...
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