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Association between candidate genes and lung function growth in Chinese asthmatic children.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Oct 2007
Leung T F, Chan I H S, Wong G W K, Li C Y, Tang N L S, Yung E, Lam C W K
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BACKGROUND: Asthma is caused by a complex interaction between multiple candidate genes and environmental factors. The Childhood Asthma Management Program reported lung function decline in a significant proportion of Caucasian asthmatic children, but such a relation has not been studied in other populations. Our group recently reported that interleukin-13 (IL13), interleukin-4 receptor-alpha and thymus and the...
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