Article
Gene by environment interaction in asthma.
Annual review of public health - 1 Jan 2009
London Stephanie J, Romieu Isabelle
Abstract excerpt
Marked international differences in rates of asthma and allergies and the importance of family history highlight the primacy of interactions between genetic variation and the environment in asthma etiology. Environmental tobacco smoke (or secondhand smoke), ambient air pollutants, and endotoxin and/or other pathogen-associated molecular patterns are the ambient exposures studied most frequently for interactions...
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