Genetic susceptibility to asthma – bronchial hyperresponsiveness coinherited with a major gene for atopy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 333, Issue 14, 1995, Pages 894-900

  Postma, Dirkje S ^a   Bleecker, Eugene R ^b   Amelung, Pamela J ^b   Holroyd, Kenneth J ^d   Xu, Jianfeng ^d   Panhuysen, Carolien I M ^c   Meyers, Deborah A ^d   Levitt, Roy C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Asthma Centre Beatrixoord   (Netherlands)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; FEMALE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029152197     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199510053331402     Document Type: Article

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