Current concepts on the genetics of asthma

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-277

  Hakonarson, Hakon ^a,b   Wjst, Matthias ^c,d,e  

^a DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; ATOPY; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CHILD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0034981949     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200106000-00010     Document Type: Review

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