The pharmacogenetics of asthma treatment.

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The treatment response to each of the three major classes of asthma medications-beta agonists, leukotriene modifiers, and inhaled corticosteroids-demonstrates substantial interindividual variability. Evidence indicates that this variability is mediated, at least in part, by genetic factors. Pharmacogenetics is the study of the role of heritable factors in the response to pharmacologic therapy. The goal of...

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