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Differences in asthma genetics between Chinese and other populations.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Jan 2014
Leung Ting F, Ko Fanny W S, Sy Hing Y, Tsui Stephen K W, Wong Gary W K
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is caused by complex gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. Most asthma genes are not replicable across populations, which is possibly because of differences in the epidemiology of these genes. Our case-control association and next-generation sequencing studies revealed substantial discrepancies in the frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and haplotype blocks for asthma genes between...
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