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Interaction between early maternal smoking and variants in TNF and GSTP1 in childhood wheezing.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Mar 2010
Panasevich S, Lindgren C, Kere J, Wickman M, Pershagen G, Nyberg F, Melén E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Children exposed to tobacco smoke early in life have a higher risk of wheeze. Individual susceptibility may depend on genetic factors. OBJECTIVE: We studied whether variations in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TNF, glutathione S transferase P1 (GSTP1) and beta2-adrenoreceptor (ADRB2) genes modify the effect of early maternal smoking on the development of childhood asthma, wheeze and...
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