Pharmacogenetics and asthma: false hope or new dawn?

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Pharmacogenetic approaches provide the opportunity to improve prescribing for asthmatic patients in order to optimise efficacy and prevent side-effects. Currently, there are comprehensive data available on the extent of genetic variation in the human genome that will further this area of research. However, less is known about the functional consequences of many of the identified polymorphisms in genes whose...

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