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Novel genetic risk factors for asthma in African American children: Precision Medicine and the SAGE II Study.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jul 2016
White Marquitta J, Risse-Adams O, Goddard P, Contreras M G, Adams J, Hu D, Eng C, Oh S S, Davis A, Meade K, Brigino-Buenaventura E, LeNoir M A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Pino-Yanes M, Burchard E G
Abstract excerpt
Asthma, an inflammatory disorder of the airways, is the most common chronic disease of children worldwide. There are significant racial/ethnic disparities in asthma prevalence, morbidity, and mortality among US children. This trend is mirrored in obesity, which may share genetic and environmental risk factors with asthma. The majority of asthma biomedical research has been performed in populations of European...
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