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Interaction of a 17q12 variant with both fetal and infant smoke exposure in the development of childhood asthma-like symptoms.
Allergy - 1 Jun 2012
van der Valk R J P, Duijts L, Kerkhof M, Willemsen S P, Hofman A, Moll H A, Smit H A, Brunekreef B, Postma D S, Jaddoe V W V, Koppelman G H, de Jongste J C
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BACKGROUND: Gene variants on chromosome 17q12-21 are associated with an increased risk of childhood-onset asthma, a risk known to be modified by environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). OBJECTIVES: To assess whether the association of rs2305480 on chromosome 17q12 in the GSDML gene with asthma-like sym...
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