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William Osmond Charles Cookson1.
Abstract
Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in developed nations and is a complex disease that has high social and economic costs. Asthma and its associated intermediate phenotypes are under a substantial degree of genetic control. Identifying the genes underlying asthma offers a means of better understanding its pathogenesis, with the promise of improving preventive strategies, diagnostic tools, and therapies. A number of chromosomal regions containing genes influencing asthma and atopy have been identified consistently by different groups, and a role for several candidate genes has been established.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 11893653 DOI: 10.1378/chest.121.3_suppl.7s-a
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chest ISSN: 0012-3692 Impact factor: 9.410