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African ancestry is associated with cluster-based childhood asthma subphenotypes.
BMC medical genomics - 31 May 2018
Ding Lili, Li Dan, Wathen Michael, Altaye Mekibib, Mersha Tesfaye B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Childhood asthma is a syndrome composed of heterogeneous phenotypes; furthermore, intrinsic biologic variation among racial/ethnic populations suggests possible genetic ancestry variation in childhood asthma. The objective of the study is to identify clinically homogeneous asthma subphenotypes in a diverse sample of asthmatic children and to assess subphenotype-specific genetic ancestry in...
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