| Literature DB >> 16579875 |
Carole Ober1, Lin Pan, Natasha Phillips, Rodney Parry, Lianne M Kurina.
Abstract
Identifying genes that influence susceptibility to asthma-related and atopy-related phenotypes has been challenging, owing to clinical heterogeneity and a complex underlying genetic architecture that includes both gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. In this article, we report the results of genome-wide linkage and association studies of eight asthma-associated quantitative traits in the Hutterites, a founder population of European descent. Our study revealed significant sex-specific genetic architecture for at least five of these traits, and identified 13 genome-wide significant quantitative trait loci (QTL) by linkage or association that are present in only one of the sexes (nine in males, four in females).Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16579875 DOI: 10.1007/s11882-006-0041-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Allergy Asthma Rep ISSN: 1529-7322 Impact factor: 4.919