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Genetic predisposition to asthma and atopy.
Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases - 1 Jan 2007
Contopoulos-Ioannidis Despina G, Kouri Ioanna N, Ioannidis John P A
Abstract excerpt
A large number of studies have tried to identify heritable components in the susceptibility to asthma and atopy phenotypes. This review examines the evidence of multigenetic inheritance for these conditions. We identified in the literature at least 372 gene-disease association studies for asthma and 124 for atopy published in the last 6 years. Gene-environment analyses were performed in 41 and 14 articles,...
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