A statistical model for assessing genetic susceptibility as a risk factor in multifactorial diseases: Lessons from occupational asthma

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-234

  Dermchuk, Eugene ^a,b   Yucesoy, Berran ^b   Johnson, Victor J ^b   Andrew, Michael ^b   Weston, Ainsley ^b   Germolec, Dori R ^c   De Rosa, Christopher T ^a   Luster, Michael I ^b  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Genetics; Polygenic diseases; Risk assessment; Susceptibility genes

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FC RECEPTOR; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 10; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASTHMA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33847083523     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8870     Document Type: Article

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