17q12-21 variants interact with smoke exposure as a risk factor for pediatric asthma but are equally associated with early-onset versus late-onset asthma in North Americans of European ancestry

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 605-607

  Flory, James H ^a   Sleiman, Patrick M ^a   Christie, Jason D ^b   Annaiah, Kiran ^a   Bradfield, Jonathan ^a   Kim, Cecilia E ^a   Glessner, Joseph ^a   Imielinski, Marcin ^a   Li, Hongzhe ^a   Frackelton, Edward C ^a   Cuiping, Hou ^a   Otieno, George ^a   Thomas, Kelly ^a   Smith, Ryan ^a   Glaberson, Wendy ^a   Garris, Maria ^a   Chiavacci, Rosetta ^a   Allen, Julian ^a   Spergel, Jonathan ^a   Grundmeier, Robert ^a   Grunstein, Michael ^a   Magnusson, Michael ^a   Grant, Struan F A ^a   Bønnelykke, Klaus ^c   Bisgaard, Hans ^c   Hakonarson, Hakon ^a   more..

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LETTER; ONSET AGE; ORMDL3 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 69349084304     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.05.047     Document Type: Letter

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