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Genomewide association study identifies HAS2 as a novel susceptibility gene for adult asthma in a Japanese population.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Nov 2014
Yatagai Y, Sakamoto T, Yamada H, Masuko H, Kaneko Y, Iijima H, Naito T, Noguchi E, Hirota T, Tamari M, Konno S, Nishimura M, Hizawa N
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BACKGROUND: It is increasingly clear that asthma is not a single disease, but a disorder with vast heterogeneity in pathogenesis, severity, and treatment response. To date, 30 genomewide association studies (GWASs) of asthma have been performed, including by our group. However, most gene variants identified so far confer relatively small increments in risk and explain only a small proportion of familial...
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