Overview on the current status of asthma genetics.

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INTRODUCTION: Asthma is a complex heterogeneous and mutifactorial disease occurring at the interface of multiple genes that interact with various environmental stimuli insulting the immune system at different levels and different times of disease susceptibility. OBJECTIVE: The present paper is a review of the current status of the genetics of asthma. RESULTS: Sequence variants in hundreds of genes have been...

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