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Familial risks for asthma among twins and other siblings based on hospitalizations in Sweden.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Sept 2007
Hemminki K, Li X, Sundquist K, Sundquist J
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BACKGROUND: Asthma is a common disabling condition, with known environmental and familial risk factors and with their assumed interactions. We wanted to carry out a family study on asthma to address gene-environment interactions at a population level. METHODS: We conducted a nation-wide study on familial risks for asthma. An asthma database was constructed by linking the Multigeneration Register on 0-72-year-old...
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