Time to draw breath: Asthma-susceptibility genes are identified

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 376-387

  Wills Karp, Marsha ^a   Ewart, Susan L ^b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM33 GENE; ASTHMA; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DPP10 GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; PHF11 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 1942499447     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1326     Document Type: Review

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