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Novel genes and insights in complete asthma remission: A genome-wide association study on clinical and complete asthma remission.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Oct 2018
Vonk J M, Nieuwenhuis M A E, Dijk F N, Boudier A, Siroux V, Bouzigon E, Probst-Hensch N, Imboden M, Keidel D, Sin D, Bossé Y, Hao K, van den Berge M, Faiz A, Koppelman G H, Postma D S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease without a cure, although there exists spontaneous remission. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have pinpointed genes associated with asthma development, but did not investigate asthma remission. OBJECTIVE: We performed a GWA study to develop insights in asthma remission. METHODS: Clinical remission (ClinR) was defined by the absence of asthma treatment and...
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