Article
Complexities of the genetics of asthma.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Oct 1997
Martinez F D
Abstract excerpt
The task of deciphering the genetics of asthma is very complex. Recent studies of the familiar segregation of asthma showed that no single gene accounts for a major part of the expression of the disease, and that a polygenic model with some evidence of an oligogenic influence (i.e., a handful of loci being responsible for most of the genetic control) provided the best fit to the data. Although a final common...
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