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Segregation analysis of physician-diagnosed asthma in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white families. A recessive component?
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Jul 1996
Holberg C J, Elston R C, Halonen M, Wright A L, Taussig L M, Morgan W J, Martinez F D
Abstract excerpt
The inheritance of asthma, evident from its high family concordance, is not well understood. To investigate whether asthma may be inherited through a major gene with two alleles, segregation analyses were conducted in 3,369 individuals from 906 nuclear families enrolled, without selection, in a longitudinal study of respiratory health in Tucson, Arizona. Physician-diagnosed asthma and its age of onset were...
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