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Genetic susceptibility to severe asthma with fungal sensitization.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2017
Overton N L, Simpson A, Bowyer P, Denning D W
Abstract excerpt
Severe asthma is problematic and its pathogenesis poorly understood. Fungal sensitization is common, and many patients with severe asthma with fungal sensitization (SAFS), used to denote this subgroup of asthma, respond to antifungal therapy. We have investigated 325 haplotype-tagging SNPs in 22 candidate genes previously associated with aspergillosis in patients with SAFS, with comparisons in atopic asthmatics...
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