Article
[Asthma: a complex disease determined by genetic and environmental factors].
Revue medicale de Liege - 1 Jan 2000
Louis R, Schleich F, Corhay J-L, Louis E
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is a complex disease highly dependent of environmental exposure and genetic background. Through linkage analysis, positional cloning and genome wide association studies, novel asthma genes have come out such as ADAM-33 or ORMLD3. Important environmental factors include allergenic exposure, pollutants and especially particulate matters, tobacco, aerosol exposure, viral infections and level of exposure to...
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