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Recent advances in asthma genetics.
Respiratory research - 15 Jan 2008
Zhang Jian, Paré Peter D, Sandford Andrew J
Abstract excerpt
There are over 100 genes that have been reported to be associated with asthma or related phenotypes. In 2006-2007 alone there were 53 novel candidate gene associations reported in the literature. Replication of genetic associations and demonstration of a functional mechanism for the associated variants are needed to confirm an asthma susceptibility gene. For most of the candidate genes there is little functional...
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