Race, ethnicity and social class and the complex etiologies of asthma

Pharmacogenomics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 453-462

  Drake, Katherine A ^a   Galanter, Joshua M ^b   Burchard, Esteban González ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Ethnicity; Interactions; Race; Social class

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; SALBUTAMOL;

ASTHMA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; MENTAL STRESS; PASSIVE SMOKING; PATHOGENESIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; RACE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 44949251119     PISSN: 14622416     EISSN: 17448042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14622416.9.4.453     Document Type: Review

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