Familial risks for asthma among twins and other siblings based on hospitalizations in Sweden

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1320-1325

  Hemminki, K ^a,b   Li, X ^b   Sundquist, K ^b   Sundquist, J ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Familial aggregation; Heritability; National database; Sibling risks

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL INCIDENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; SWEDEN; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; SWEDEN;

EID: 34548513330     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02737.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. McGeady S. Immunocompetence and allergy. Pediatrics 2006 113 : 1107 13.
2. Holgate ST, Polosa R. The mechanisms, diagnosis, and management of severe asthma in adults. Lancet 2006 368 : 780 93.
3. Kumar V, Cotran R, Robbins S. Basic Pathology. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1997.
4. Burke W, Fesinmeyer M, Reed K, Hampson L, Carlsten C. Family history as a predictor of asthma risk. Am J Prev Med 2003 24 : 160 9.
5. Yeatts K, Sly P, Shore S et al. A brief targeted review of susceptibility factors, environmental exposures, asthma incidence, and recommendations for future asthma incidence research. Environ Health Perspect 2006 114 : 634 40.
6. Skadhauge LR, Christensen K, Kyvik KO, Sigsgaard T. Genetic and environmental influence on asthma: a population-based study of 11,688 Danish twin pairs. Eur Respir J 1999 13 : 8 14.
7. Nystad W, Roysamb E, Magnus P, Tambs K, Harris JR. A comparison of genetic and environmental variance structures for asthma, hay fever and eczema with symptoms of the same diseases: a study of Norwegian twins. Int J Epidemiol 2005 34 : 1302 9.
8. Ferreira MA, O'Gorman L, Le Souef P et al. Variance components analyses of multiple asthma traits in a large sample of Australian families ascertained through a twin proband. Allergy 2006 61 : 245 53.
9. Ober C, Hoffjan S. Asthma genetics 2006: the long and winding road to gene discovery. Genes Immun 2006 7 : 95 100.
10. Kleeberger SR, Peden D. Gene-environment interactions in asthma and other respiratory diseases. Annu Rev Med 2005 56 : 383 400.
11. Hoffjan S, Nicolae D, Ostrovnaya I et al. Gene-environment interaction effects on the development of immune responses in the 1st year of life. Am J Hum Genet 2005 76 : 696 704.
12. Brennan P. Gene-environment interactions and aetiology of cancer: what does it mean and how can we measure it. Carcinogenesis 2002 23 : 381 7.
13. Hemminki K, Lorenzo Bermejo J, Försti A. The balance between heritable and environmental aetiology of human disease. Nature Rev. Cancer 2006 7 : 958 65.
14. Hemminki K, Granstrom C, Chen B. The Swedish family-cancer: update, application to colorectal cancer and clinical relevance. Heredit Cancer Clin Pract 2005 3 : 7 18.
15. Hopper JL, Bishop DT, Easton DF. Population-based family studies in genetic epidemiology. Lancet 2005 366 : 1397 406.
16. Hemminki K, Li X, Johansson S, Sundquist K, Sundquist J. Familial risks for migraine and other headaches among siblings based on hospitalisations in Sweden. Neurogenetics 2005 6 : 217 24.
17. Hemminki K, Li X, Sundquist K. Familial risks for main neurological diseases in siblings based on hospitalizations in Sweden. Twin Res Hum Genet 2006 9 : 580 6.
18. Sundquist K, Li X, Hemminki K. Familial risk of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: a large-scale study of the Swedish population. Stroke 2006 37 : 1668 73.
19. Hemminki K, Vaittinen P, Dong C, Easton D. Sibling risks in cancer: clues to recessive or X-linked genes? Br J Cancer 2001 84 : 388 91.
20. Vogel F, Motulsky A. Human Genetics: problems and approaches. Springer, Heidelberg, 1996.
21. Hemminki K, Li X, Czene K. Familial risk of cancer: data for clinical counseling and cancer genetics. Int J Cancer 2004 108 : 109 14.
22. Risch N. The genetic epidemiology of cancer: interpreting family and twin studies and their implications for molecular genetic approaches. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2001 10 : 733 41.