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Leveraging gene-environment interactions and endotypes for asthma gene discovery.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Mar 2016
Bønnelykke Klaus, Ober Carole
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome that includes subtypes of disease with different underlying causes and disease mechanisms. Asthma is caused by a complex interaction between genes and environmental exposures; early-life exposures in particular play an important role. Asthma is also heritable, and a number of susceptibility variants have been discovered in genome-wide association studies, although the...
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